NC General Statutes

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 63-20 (2026)

Qualifications of operator; federal license

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The public safety requiring, and the advantages of uniform regulation making it desirable, in the interest of aeronautical progress, that a person engaging within this State in operating aircraft, in any form of aerial navigation for which a license to operate aircraft issued by the United States government would then be required if such aerial navigation were interstate, should have the qualifications necessary for obtaining and holding such a license, it shall be unlawful for any person to engage in operating aircraft within the State, in any such form of aerial navigation, unless he have such federal license. (1929, c. 190, s. 11.)

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 4 cases, 1964–2009 · leading case: McDonnell v. Guilford Cnty. Tradewind Airlines, Inc., 670 S.E.2d 302 (N.C. Ct. App. 2009).

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McDonnell v. Guilford Cnty. Tradewind Airlines, Inc., 670 S.E.2d 302 (N.C. Ct. App. 2009). · cites it 8× “Plaintiff, however, points to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 63-20 which requires any person operating aircraft in this state to have a federal license, and to case law stating “[fjederal laws and regulations where applicable, are, of course, binding on state courts and subject to judicial…”

Bolick v. Sunbird Airlines, Inc., 386 S.E.2d 76 (N.C. Ct. App. 1989). · cites it 4× “Section 63-20. Captain Harper and First Officer Van Hoy admitted that the FARs applied to the conduct of Sunbird flight 808.”

Mann v. Henderson, 134 S.E.2d 626 (N.C. 1964). “It would seem that nothing short of physical interference with Mann’s operation of the plane would remove the pilot from actual control. “The pilot in command of the aircraft shall be directly responsible for its operation and shall have final authority as to the operation of…”

Haley v. United States, 654 F. Supp. 481 (W.D.N.C. 1987). · cites it 3× “2 ) The North Carolina court further notes that the quoted federal regulation is made applicable to all flights in North Carolina by state statute (citing NCGS § 63-20). While 14 C.F.R. § 60.2 has been superseded since the Mann decision, the same language is now incorporated in…”

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