GOVERNMENT OF INDIA             CIVIL AVIATION REQUIREMENTS
CIVIL AVIATION DEPARTMENT       SECTION 2 - AIRWORTHINESS
                                SERIES 'T' PART I
                                ISSUE I, DATED 10TH MAY, 1967

File No. 77/6/75-AI(1)          EFFECTIVE  :  FORTHWITH

Subject  : Flight  Testing of (Series) Aircraft for the Issue  of 
          Certificate of Airworthiness.

1.   APPLICABILITY :

     This  part  of Civil Airworthiness Requirements  Series  'T' 
     specifies  the conditions for the flight testing  of  series 
     aircraft for the issue of Certificate of Airworthiness.

2.   DEFINITION :

     Series  Aircraft  means an aircraft in respect of  which  an 
     application  has been made for Certificate of  Airworthiness  
     and  the  design  of which is  similar  in  every  essential 
     respect to the design of an aircraft for which a Certificate 
     of Airworthiness has previously been issued.

     Flight  Tests for the purpose of this part means the  flying 
     of an aircraft exclusively for the purpose of ensuring  that 
     the  Flight performance and characteristics of the  aircraft 
     and  functioning  in flight of the  aircraft  parts  do  not 
     differ  significantly  in adverse sense from  those  of  its 
     prototype.

3.   CIRCUMSTANCES OF FLIGHT TEST :

     The  aircraft will be flight tested in accordance  with  the 
     flight test schedule approved by the Director General :

          (i)  to  establish  compliance with  the  airworthiness 
               requirements;

          (ii) to  provide  information  for  inclusion  in   the 
               documents  associated  with  the  Certificate   of 
               Airworthiness.

4.   RELEASE OF AIRCRAFT FOR FLIGHT TEST :

     Before  the flight  test is made, the Chief Inspector  shall 
     release the aircraft for flight test after ensuring that all 
     requirements  of Aircraft Rules and those laid down  by  the 
     Director General  have been complied with.

5.   FLIGHT CREW REQUIREMENTS :

     The     aircraft     shall    be    flight     tested     by 
     applicant's/constructor's pilot under approved arrangements.

                                           Sd/-
                                        (M. L. Sodhi)
                           for Director General of Civil Aviation