---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 9656"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "9656"
heading: "Aircraft and equipment: civilian aviation schools"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/9656"
units:
  - "Subtitle D — Air Force and Space Force"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Procurement"
  - "Chapter 971 — Issue of Serviceable Material Other Than to Armed Forces"
---

# §9656. Aircraft and equipment: civilian aviation schools


The [Secretary](/usc/10/9511.md?p=10) of the Air Force, under regulations to be prescribed by him, may lend [aircraft](/usc/10/9511.md?p=1), [aircraft](/usc/10/9511.md?p=1) parts, and aeronautical equipment and accessories that are required for instruction, training, and maintenance, to accredited civilian aviation schools at which personnel of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of the Air Force or the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of the Army are pursuing a course of instruction and training under detail by competent orders.


## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 583; Pub. L. 97–295, § 1(53), Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1301.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1956 Act |  |  |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 9656 | 10:298b. | Apr. 3, 1939, ch. 35, § 4, 53 Stat. 556. |

The words “in his discretion and”, “rules”, “limitations”, and “on hand and belonging to the Government such articles as may appear to be” are omitted as surplusage. The words “Department of the Air Force or the Department of the Army” are substituted for the words “Military Establishment”, since the authority is reciprocal.

### 1982 Act

In 10:9656, the words “, and at least one of which is designated by the Civil Aeronautics Authority for the training of Negro air pilots” are stricken as obsolete.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1982—Pub. L. 97–295 struck out “, and at least one of which is designated by the Civil Aeronautics Authority for the training of Negro air pilots” after “competent orders”.