N.Y. General Business Law § 241: Qualifications of operator; federal license

§ 241. Qualifications of operator; federal license. 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 avigation for which a

license to operate aircraft issued by the United States government would

then be required if such avigation 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 avigation, unless he have such a license.