---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 87.19"
title: "47"
number: "87.19"
heading: "Basic eligibility."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/87.19"
---

# §87.19. Basic eligibility.

- (a) **General.** Foreign governments or their representatives cannot hold station licenses.
- (b) **Aeronautical enroute and aeronautical fixed stations.** The following persons cannot hold an aeronautical enroute or an aeronautical fixed station license.
  - (1) Any alien or the representative of any alien;
  - (2) Any corporation organized under the laws of any foreign government;
  - (3) Any corporation of which more than one-fifth of the capital stock is owned of record or voted by aliens or their representatives or by a foreign government or its representative, or by a corporation organized under the laws of a foreign country; or
  - (4) Any corporation directly or indirectly controlled by any other corporation of which more than one-fourth of the capital stock is owned of record or voted by aliens, their representatives, or by a foreign government or its representatives, or by any corporation organized under the laws of a foreign country, if the Commission finds that the public interest will be served by the refusal or revocation of such license.

## Notes

### Amendments

[53 FR 28940, Aug. 1, 1988, as amended at 61 FR 55581, Oct. 28, 1996]

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 303 and 307(e), unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 53 FR 28940, Aug. 1, 1988, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[53 FR 28940, Aug. 1, 1988, as amended at 61 FR 55581, Oct. 28, 1996]