# § 7253. Flying officer rating: qualifications
Only officers of the Army in the following categories may be rated as flying officers:
**(1)** Officers who have aeronautical ratings as pilots of service types of aircraft or as aircraft observers.
**(2)** Flight surgeons.
**(3)** Officers undergoing flight training.
**(4)** Officers who are members of combat crews, other than pilots of service types of aircraft, aircraft observers, and observers.
**(5)** In time of war, officers who have aeronautical ratings as observers.
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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 213, § 3691; renumbered § 7253, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 808(b)(9), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1838.)
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 3691 | 10:291c.10:291c-1.10:291e. | June 3, 1916, ch. 134, § 13a (8th, 9th, and 11th provisos); added July 2, 1926, ch. 721, § 2 (4th sentence, less 2d proviso), 44 Stat. 781; June 16, 1936, ch. 587, § 3, 49 Stat. 1524; Oct. 4, 1940, ch. 742 (last proviso), 54 Stat. 963. |
| | | June 24, 1948, ch. 632 (2d proviso under “Finance Department”), 62 Stat. 650. |
10:291c (proviso) and the words “after ”, in 10:291c–1, are omitted as executed. The definition of the term “flying officer”, in 10:291c, originally was a definition of the term “flying officer in time of peace” as provided by , . , , eliminated the words “in time of peace”. As a consequence of that amendment, 10:291e (1st 26 words) is omitted as surplusage. Clause (2) is substituted for 10:291c–1 (less last 10 words). The words “commissioned officers or warrant”, in 10:291c–1, are omitted as surplusage. In clause (4), the last 12 words are substituted for the words “any other”.
## Editorial Notes
### Amendments
2018— renumbered as this section.
## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment
Amendment by effective , with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see , set out as a note preceding .