When used in this chapter:

1. (1) "Aeronautics" means the act or practice of the art and science of transportation by aircraft, of operation, construction, repair or maintenance of aircraft, airports, landing fields, landing strips or air navigation facilities or of air instruction;
2. (2) "Aircraft" means any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used or designed for navigation of or flight in the air;
3. (3) "Public aircraft" means an aircraft used exclusively in governmental service, including military and naval aircraft, or of any state or territory thereof;
4. (4) "Civil aircraft" means any aircraft other than a public aircraft;
5. (5) "Airport" means any area, either of land or water, which is used or which is made available for the landing and take-off of aircraft, whether or not it provides facilities for the shelter, supply and repair of aircraft, and which meets the minimum requirements as to size, design, surface marking, equipment and management that may from time to time be provided by the division;
6. (6) "Landing strip" means an area, either of land or water, which is available for the landing and take-off of aircraft having not less than one hundred feet of usable width and not less than one thousand feet of usable length, the use of which shall, except in case of emergency, be only as provided from time to time by the regulations of the division;
7. (7) "Person" means any individual, association, copartnership, firm, company, corporation or other association of individuals;
8. (8) "Air instruction" means the imparting of aeronautical information in any air school, flying club or by any aviation instructor;
9. (9) Any person engaged in giving instruction or offering to give instruction in aeronautics, either in flying or ground subjects, or both, for or without hire or reward and advertising, representing or holding himself out as giving or offering to give such instruction shall be termed and considered an "air school";
10. (10) Any person other than an individual who, neither for profit nor reward, owns, leases or uses one or more aircraft for the purpose of instruction, pleasure or both, shall be termed and considered a "flying club";
11. (11) "Aviation instructor" means any individual engaged in giving instruction, or offering to give instruction, in aeronautics, either in flying or ground subjects, or both, for or without hire or reward, without advertising such occupation, without calling his facilities an "air school" or anything equivalent thereto and without employing or using other instructors; and
12. (12) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, "aviation gasoline" means gasoline and aviation jet fuel manufactured exclusively for use in airplanes and sold for such purposes.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 2-53; 1952 Code Section 2-53; 1942 Code Section 7112; 1935 (39) 447; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1289, eff July 1, 1993; 2005 Act No. 11, Section 1. D, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on January 13, 2005).