---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 141.38"
title: "14"
number: "141.38"
heading: "Airports."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/141.38"
---

# §141.38. Airports.

- (a) An applicant for a pilot school certificate or a provisional pilot school certificate must show that he or she has continuous use of each airport at which training flights originate.
- (b) Each airport used for airplanes and gliders must have at least one runway or takeoff area that allows training aircraft to make a normal takeoff or landing under the following conditions at the aircraft's maximum certificated takeoff gross weight:
  - (1) Under wind conditions of not more than 5 miles per hour;
  - (2) At temperatures in the operating area equal to the mean high temperature for the hottest month of the year;
  - (3) If applicable, with the powerplant operation, and landing gear and flap operation recommended by the manufacturer; and
  - (4) **In the case of a takeoff—**
    - (i) With smooth transition from liftoff to the best rate of climb speed without exceptional piloting skills or techniques; and
    - (ii) **Clearing all obstacles in the takeoff flight path by at least 50 feet.**
- (c) Each airport must have a wind direction indicator that is visible from the end of each runway at ground level;
- (d) Each airport must have a traffic direction indicator when:
  - (1) The airport does not have an operating control tower; and
  - (2) **UNICOM advisories are not available.**
- (e) Except as provided in [paragraph (f)](#f) of this section, each airport used for night training flights must have permanent runway lights;
- (f) An airport or seaplane base used for night training flights in seaplanes is permitted to use adequate nonpermanent lighting or shoreline lighting, if approved by the Administrator.

## Notes

### Amendments

[Docket 25910, 62 FR 16347, Apr. 4, 1997; Amdt. 141-9, 62 FR 40907, July 30, 1997]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 40113, 44701-44703, 44707, 44709, 44711, 45102-45103, 45301-45302.

### Source

Source: Docket 25910, 62 FR 16347, Apr. 4, 1997, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Docket 25910, 62 FR 16347, Apr. 4, 1997; Amdt. 141-9, 62 FR 40907, July 30, 1997]