---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 61.11"
title: "14"
number: "61.11"
heading: "Expired pilot certificates and re-issuance."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/61.11"
---

# §61.11. Expired pilot certificates and re-issuance.

- (a) No person who holds an expired pilot certificate or rating may act as pilot in command or as a required pilot flight crewmember of an aircraft of the same category or class that is listed on that expired pilot certificate or rating.
- (b) The following pilot certificates and ratings have expired and will not be reissued:
  - (1) An airline transport pilot certificate issued before May 1, 1949, or an airline transport pilot certificate that contains a horsepower limitation.
  - (2) **A private or commercial pilot certificate issued before July 1, 1945.**
  - (3) **A pilot certificate with a lighter-than-air or free-balloon rating issued before July 1, 1945.**
- (c) An airline transport pilot certificate that was issued after April 30, 1949, and that bears an expiration date but does not contain a horsepower limitation, may have that airline transport pilot certificate re-issued without an expiration date.
- (d) A private or commercial pilot certificate that was issued after June 30, 1945, and that bears an expiration date, may have that pilot certificate reissued without an expiration date.
- (e) A pilot certificate with a lighter-than-air or free-balloon rating that was issued after June 30, 1945, and that bears an expiration date, may have that pilot certificate reissued without an expiration date.

## Notes

### Amendments

[Docket FAA-2006-26661, 74 FR 42547, Aug. 21, 2009]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 40113, 44701-44703, 44707, 44709-44711, 44729, 44903, 45102-45103, 45301-45302.

### Source

Source: Docket 25910, 62 FR 16298, Apr. 4, 1997, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Docket FAA-2006-26661, 74 FR 42547, Aug. 21, 2009]