---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 87.217"
title: "47"
number: "87.217"
heading: "Frequencies."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/87.217"
---

# §87.217. Frequencies.

- (a) Only one unicom frequency will be assigned at any one airport. Applicants must request a particular frequency, which will be taken into consideration when the assignment is made. The frequencies assignable to unicoms are:
  - (1) 122.950 MHz at airports which have a full-time control tower or full-time FAA flight service station.
  - (2) 122.700, 122.725, 122.800, 122.975, 123.000, 123.050 or 123.075 MHz at all other airports.
- (b) 121.500 MHz: emergency and distress only.

## Notes

### Amendments

[53 FR 28940, Aug. 1, 1988, as amended at 55 FR 30464, July 26, 1990; 58 FR 67696, Dec. 22, 1993; 69 FR 32885, June 14, 2004]

### 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 55 FR 30464, July 26, 1990; 58 FR 67696, Dec. 22, 1993; 69 FR 32885, June 14, 2004]