14 CFR 121.641
§ 121.641 Fuel supply: Nonturbine and turbo-propeller-powered airplanes: Flag operations.
United States · 14 CFR — Aeronautics and Space · Status: effective
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- 14 CFR 121.641, § 121.641 Fuel supply: Nonturbine and turbo-propeller-powered airplanes: Flag operations, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/56945
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(a) No person may dispatch or take off a nonturbine or turbo-propeller-powered airplane unless, considering the wind and other weather conditions expected, it has enough fuel—
(1) To fly to and land at the airport to which it is dispatched;
(2) Thereafter, to fly to and land at the most distant alternate airport specified in the dispatch release; and
(3) Thereafter, to fly for 30 minutes plus 15 percent of the total time required to fly at normal cruising fuel consumption to the airports specified in paragraphs (a) (1) and (2) of this section or to fly for 90 minutes at normal cruising fuel consumption, whichever is less.
(b) No person may dispatch a nonturbine or turbo-propeller-powered airplane to an airport for which an alternate is not specified under § 121.621(a)(2), unless it has enough fuel, considering wind and forecast weather conditions, to fly to that airport and thereafter to fly for three hours at normal cruising fuel consumption.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.