N.Y. General Business Law § 243: Aircraft; construction, design and airworthiness; federal registration

§ 243. Aircraft; construction, design and airworthiness; federal

registration. The public safety requiring, and the advantages of uniform

regulation making it desirable, in the interest of aeronautical

progress, that aircraft to be avigated within this state should conform,

with respect to design, construction and airworthiness, to standards

prescribed by the United States government with respect to avigation of

aircraft subject to its jurisdiction, it shall be unlawful for any

person to avigate an aircraft within this state unless it is licensed

and registered by the department of transportation of the United States

in the manner prescribed by the lawful rules and regulations of the

United States government then in force. The license for such aircraft

must be carried and conspicuously posted in the aircraft while in

flight. Such license also shall be presented for inspection, on demand,

to any peace officer, acting pursuant to his special duties, or police

officer, or to any official, manager or person in charge of an airport

or landing place where the aircraft may be. The provisions of this

section shall not apply to aircraft used exclusively in the governmental

service of the United States, or used exclusively in the service of the

national guard or of one or more of the civil departments of this state.