1. Regulations
  2. title 14
  3. chapter I
  4. part 27
  5. subpart E
  6. subjgrp 185
  7. § 27.969

View all text of Subjgrp 185 [§ 27.951 - § 27.977]

§ 27.969 - Fuel tank expansion space.

Each fuel tank or each group of fuel tanks with interconnected vent systems must have an expansion space of not less than 2 percent of the tank capacity. It must be impossible to fill the fuel tank expansion space inadvertently with the rotorcraft in the normal ground attitude.

[Amdt. 27-23, 53 FR 34213, Sept. 2, 1988]

AUTHORITY: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 106(g), 40113, 44701-44702, 44704.

SOURCE: Docket No. 5074, 29 FR 15695, Nov. 24, 1964, unless otherwise noted.

CITE AS: 14 CFR 27.969