---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 21.193"
title: "14"
number: "21.193"
heading: "Application for special airworthiness certificates issued for experimental purposes."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/21.193"
---

# §21.193. Application for special airworthiness certificates issued for experimental purposes.


An applicant for an experimental airworthiness certificate must submit the following information in a form and manner prescribed by the FAA:

- (a) **The experimental purpose for which the aircraft is to be used.**
- (b) **Enough information to describe the operation, equipment, or test as applicable.**
- (c) The estimated time or number of flights required for the operation, for an applicant seeking issuance of an experimental airworthiness certificate for those experimental purposes specified in [§ 21.191(a) through (f)](/cfr/14/21.191.md?p=a..f).
- (d) The areas over which flights will be conducted.
- (e) **Enough data to identify the aircraft.**
- (f) Except for a previously type certificated aircraft without an appreciable change in its external configuration, three-view drawings or three-view dimensional photographs of the aircraft.
- (g) Upon inspection of the aircraft, any pertinent information found necessary by the FAA to safeguard the general public.
- (h) In the case of a light-sport category aircraft assembled from a kit to be certificated in accordance with [§ 21.191(k)](/cfr/14/21.191.md?p=k), an applicant must provide the following:
  - (1) Evidence that an aircraft of the same make and model was manufactured and assembled by the aircraft kit manufacturer and issued a special airworthiness certificate in the light-sport category under [§ 21.190](/cfr/14/21.190.md).
  - (2) **The pilot's operating handbook that includes a flight training supplement.**
  - (3) **The aircraft's maintenance and inspection procedures.**
  - (4) The manufacturer's statement of compliance for the aircraft kit used in the aircraft assembly that meets the applicable requirements of [§ 21.190](/cfr/14/21.190.md) in effect at the time the aircraft kit was manufactured, except the statement need not indicate compliance with [§ 22.195](/cfr/14/22.195.md) of this chapter. The statement must identify assembly instructions for the aircraft that meet an applicable consensus standard.
  - (5) For an aircraft kit manufactured outside the United States, evidence that the aircraft kit was manufactured in a country with which the United States has a Bilateral Airworthiness Agreement concerning airplanes or a Bilateral Aviation Safety Agreement with associated Implementation Procedures for Airworthiness concerning airplanes, or an equivalent airworthiness agreement.

## Notes

### Amendments

[Amdt. No. 21-109, 90 FR 35207, July 24, 2025]

### Source

Source: Docket No. 5085, 29 FR 14569, Oct. 24, 1964, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7572; 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 40105, 40113, 44701-44702, 44704, 44707, 44709, 44711, 44713, 44715, 45303.

### Amendments

[Amdt. No. 21-109, 90 FR 35207, July 24, 2025]