Aviation Lighting Requirements

This change amends the federal aviation administration s standards for marking and lighting structures to promote aviation safety.

Aviation lighting requirements.

This change is effective february 1 2007. 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. These lights include landing lights red or white flashing beacons wingtip strobes and wingtip navigation lights. Navigation lights are not intended to provide illumination for the craft making the passage only for other.

Some lighting requirements are determined by faa aeronautical studies of the area in which the structure will be located. The wingtip navigation lights are required to consist of a red light on the left wingtip and a green light on the right wingtip. Department of transportation federal aviation administration 800 independence avenue sw washington dc 20591 866 tell faa 866 835 5322. The change number and date of the change material are located at the top of the page.

These studies may also determine that a structure of the proscribed height requiring lighting may not present an aviation hazard without the lighting. Ac 20 30b pdf 455 kb. However aim 4 2 23 on the use of aircraft lights copied below suggests using the rotating beacon anytime the aircraft is in operation. Or ii is in an area where anchor lights are not required on vessels.

Based on the current faa guidelines for new and refiled towers the infographics linked below depict obstruction lighting and tower paint requirements. Aircraft lighting requirements rotating beacon requirements. Type description l 810 steady burning red obstruction light. Marking and lighting initiated by.

Aircraft use collision avoidance lighting systems to warn other aircraft of their presence. However the anticollision lights need not be lighted when the pilot in. 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. There is no published requirement for rotating beacons that i could find in the regulations.

Faa lighting requirements vary depending on the height of cell towers and other structures.