Aviation Lighting Requirements

A navigation light also known as a running or position light is a source of illumination on a vessel aircraft or spacecraft navigation lights give information on a craft s position heading and status their placement is mandated by international conventions or civil authorities.

Aviation lighting requirements. Navigation lights are not intended to provide illumination for the craft making the passage only for other. Based on the current faa guidelines for new and refiled towers the infographics linked below depict obstruction lighting and tower paint requirements. The change number and date of the change material are located at the top of the page. Aircraft lighting requirements rotating beacon requirements.

However the anticollision lights need not be lighted when the pilot in. This change is effective february 1 2007. However aim 4 2 23 on the use of aircraft lights copied below suggests using the rotating beacon anytime the aircraft is in operation. Type description l 810 steady burning red obstruction light.

Faa lighting requirements vary depending on the height of cell towers and other structures. The wingtip navigation lights are required to consist of a red light on the left wingtip and a green light on the right wingtip. 3 anchor an aircraft unless the aircraft i has lighted anchor lights. Aircraft use collision avoidance lighting systems to warn other aircraft of their presence.

Or ii is in an area where anchor lights are not required on vessels. Or b operate an aircraft that is equipped with an anticollision light system unless it has lighted anticollision lights. This specification sets forth the federal aviation administration faa requirements for obstruction lighting equipment used to increase conspicuity of structures to facilitate early obstruction recognition by pilots. These lights include landing lights red or white flashing beacons wingtip strobes and wingtip navigation lights.

Ac 20 30b pdf 455 kb. These studies may also determine that a structure of the proscribed height requiring lighting may not present an aviation hazard without the lighting. Marking and lighting initiated by. Air 120 aviation safety aircraft certification service aircraft engineering division description sets forth acceptable means but not the only means of showing compliance with the federal aviation regulations far applicable to installed position lights and anti collision lights.

There is no published requirement for rotating beacons that i could find in the regulations.