---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 47.5"
title: "14"
number: "47.5"
heading: "Applicants."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/47.5"
---

# §47.5. Applicants.

- (a) A person who wishes to register an aircraft in the United States must submit an Aircraft Registration Application, AC Form 8050-1 under this part.
- (b) An aircraft may be registered only by and in the legal name of its owner.
- (c) [49 U.S.C. 44103(c)](/usc/49/44103.md?p=c) provides that registration is not evidence of ownership of aircraft in any proceeding in which ownership by a particular person is in issue. The FAA does not issue any certificate of ownership or endorse any information with respect to ownership on a Certificate of Aircraft Registration. The FAA issues a Certificate of Aircraft Registration to the person who appears to be the owner on the basis of the evidence of ownership submitted pursuant to [§ 47.11](/cfr/14/47.11.md) with the Aircraft Registration Application, or recorded at the Registry.
- (d) In this part, “owner” includes a buyer in possession, a bailee, or a lessee of an aircraft under a contract of conditional sale, and the assignee of that person.

## Notes

### Amendments

[Amdt. 47-20, 44 FR 61939, Oct. 29, 1979, as amended by Amdt. 47-27, 70 FR 244, Jan. 3, 2005; Amdt. 47-29, 75 FR 41979, July 20, 2010; Docket No. FAA-2024-2765, Amdt. No. 47-36, 90 FR 5571, Jan. 17, 2025]

### Authority

Authority: 4 U.S.T. 1830; Pub. L. 115-254, Pub. L. 108-297, 118 Stat. 1095 (49 U.S.C. 40101 note, 49 U.S.C. 44101 note); 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 40113-40114, 44101-44108, 44110-44113, 44701, 44703-44704, 44713, 45302, 46104, 46301.

### Source

Source: Docket No. 7190, 31 FR 4495, Mar. 17, 1966, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Amdt. 47-20, 44 FR 61939, Oct. 29, 1979, as amended by Amdt. 47-27, 70 FR 244, Jan. 3, 2005; Amdt. 47-29, 75 FR 41979, July 20, 2010; Docket No. FAA-2024-2765, Amdt. No. 47-36, 90 FR 5571, Jan. 17, 2025]