---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 23.2530"
title: "14"
number: "23.2530"
heading: "External and cockpit lighting."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/23.2530"
---

# §23.2530. External and cockpit lighting.

- (a) The applicant must design and install all lights to minimize any adverse effects on the performance of flightcrew duties.
- (b) Any position and anti-collision lights, if required by [part 91](/cfr/14/part91.md) of this chapter, must have the intensities, flash rate, colors, fields of coverage, and other characteristics to provide sufficient time for another aircraft to avoid a collision.
- (c) Any position lights, if required by [part 91](/cfr/14/part91.md) of this chapter, must include a red light on the left side of the airplane, a green light on the right side of the airplane, spaced laterally as far apart as practicable, and a white light facing aft, located on an aft portion of the airplane or on the wing tips.
- (d) Any taxi and landing lights must be designed and installed so they provide sufficient light for night operations.
- (e) For seaplanes or amphibian airplanes, riding lights must provide a white light visible in clear atmospheric conditions.

## 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.