---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 61.7"
title: "14"
number: "61.7"
heading: "Obsolete certificates and ratings."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/61.7"
---

# §61.7. Obsolete certificates and ratings.

- (a) The holder of a free-balloon pilot certificate issued before November 1, 1973, may not exercise the privileges of that certificate.
- (b) The holder of a pilot certificate that bears any of the following category ratings without an associated class rating may not exercise the privileges of that category rating:
  - (1) **Rotorcraft.**
  - (2) **Lighter-than-air.**
  - (3) **Helicopter.**
  - (4) **Autogyro.**

## Notes

### 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.