---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 399.73"
title: "14"
number: "399.73"
heading: "Definition of small business for Regulatory Flexibility Act."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/399.73"
---

# §399.73. Definition of small business for Regulatory Flexibility Act.


For the purposes of the Department's implementation of chapter 6 of title 5, United States Code (Regulatory Flexibility Act), a direct air carrier or foreign air carrier is a small business if it provides air transportation only with small aircraft as defined in [§ 298.2](/cfr/14/298.2.md) of this chapter (up to 60 seats/18,000 pound payload capacity).


## Notes

### Amendments

[Doc. No. OST-96-1429, 61 FR 29019, June 7, 1996, as amended by Doc. No. DOT-OST-2014-0140, 84 FR 15947, Apr. 16, 2019]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 41712, 40113(a).

### Source

Source: PS-21, 29 FR 1446, Jan. 29, 1964, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Doc. No. OST-96-1429, 61 FR 29019, June 7, 1996, as amended by Doc. No. DOT-OST-2014-0140, 84 FR 15947, Apr. 16, 2019]