Code of Federal Regulations (alpha)

CFR /  Title 14  /  Part 27  /  Sec. 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]