---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 3.403"
title: "14"
number: "3.403"
heading: "Falsification, reproduction, alteration, or omission."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/3.403"
---

# §3.403. Falsification, reproduction, alteration, or omission.

- (a) No person may make or cause to be made any fraudulent or intentionally false statement in:
  - (1) Any document in any format, submitted under any provision referenced in [§ 3.401](/cfr/14/3.401.md), consisting of or related to any acceptance, application, approval, authorization, certificate, rating, declaration, designation, qualification, record, report, request for reconsideration, or similar; or
  - (2) Any document in any format that is kept, made, or used to show compliance with any requirement under the provisions referenced in [§ 3.401](/cfr/14/3.401.md).
- (b) No person may make or cause to be made any production, reproduction, or alteration, for fraudulent purpose, of:
  - (1) Any document in any format, submitted or granted under any provision referenced in [§ 3.401](/cfr/14/3.401.md), consisting of or related to any acceptance, application, approval, authorization, certificate, rating, declaration, designation, qualification, record, report, request for reconsideration, or similar; or
  - (2) Any document in any format that is kept, made, or used to show compliance with any requirement under the provisions referenced in [§ 3.401](/cfr/14/3.401.md).
- (c) No person may knowingly omit, or cause to be omitted, a material fact in:
  - (1) Any document in any format, submitted under any provision referenced in [§ 3.401](/cfr/14/3.401.md), consisting of or related to any acceptance, application, approval, authorization, certificate, rating, declaration, designation, qualification, record, report, request for reconsideration, or similar; or
  - (2) Any document in any format that is kept, made, or used to show compliance with any requirement under the provisions referenced in [§ 3.401](/cfr/14/3.401.md).
- (d) The commission by any person of an act prohibited under [paragraphs (a) through (c)](#a..c) of this section is a basis for:
  - (1) Denying, suspending, modifying, revoking, rescinding, removing, or withdrawing any acceptance, application, approval, authorization, certificate, rating, declaration, designation, qualification, request for reconsideration, or similar, issued or granted by the Administrator and held by that person; or
  - (2) **A civil penalty.**

## Notes

### Source

Source: Doc. No. FAA-2024-0021, Amdt. 3-4, 90 FR 42524, Sept. 3, 2025, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 40113, 44701-44709, 46111, 46103 and 46301.

### Source

Source: FAA-2003-15062, Amdt. 3-1, 70 FR 54832, Sept. 16, 2005, unless otherwise noted.