§ 27.969 - Fuel tank expansion space.  


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  • § 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]