---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 23.2210"
title: "14"
number: "23.2210"
heading: "Structural design loads."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/23.2210"
---

# §23.2210. Structural design loads.

- (a) **The applicant must—**
  - (1) Determine the applicable structural design loads resulting from likely externally or internally applied pressures, forces, or moments that may occur in flight, ground and water operations, ground and water handling, and while the airplane is parked or moored.
  - (2) Determine the loads required by [paragraph (a)(1)](#a-1) of this section at all critical combinations of parameters, on and within the boundaries of the structural design envelope.
- (b) The magnitude and distribution of the applicable structural design loads required by this section must be based on physical principles.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 106(g), 40113, 44701-44702, 44704, Pub. L. 113-53, 127 Stat. 584 (49 U.S.C. 44704) note.

### Source

Source: Doc. No. FAA-2015-1621, Amdt. 23-64, 81 FR 96689, Dec. 30, 2016, unless otherwise noted.