10 USC § 9656 - Aircraft and equipment: civilian aviation schools

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identifier: "/us/usc/t10/s9656"
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title: "10 USC § 9656 - Aircraft and equipment: civilian aviation schools"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "9656"
section_name: "Aircraft and equipment: civilian aviation schools"
chapter_number: 971
chapter_name: "ISSUE OF SERVICEABLE MATERIAL OTHER THAN TO ARMED FORCES"
part_number: "IV"
part_name: "SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 583; Pub. L. 97–295, § 1(53), Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1301.)"
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# § 9656. Aircraft and equipment: civilian aviation schools

The Secretary of the Air Force, under regulations to be prescribed by him, may lend aircraft, aircraft parts, and aeronautical equipment and accessories that are required for instruction, training, and maintenance, to accredited civilian aviation schools at which personnel of the Department of the Air Force or the Department of the Army are pursuing a course of instruction and training under detail by competent orders.

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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 583; Pub. L. 97–295, § 1(53), Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1301.)

| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 9656 | 10:298b. | Apr. 3, 1939, ch. 35, § 4, 53 Stat. 556. |

The words “in his discretion and”, “rules”, “limitations”, and “on hand and belonging to the Government such articles as may appear to be” are omitted as surplusage. The words “Department of the Air Force or the Department of the Army” are substituted for the words “Military Establishment”, since the authority is reciprocal.

### 1982 Act

In 10:9656, the words “, and at least one of which is designated by the Civil Aeronautics Authority for the training of Negro air pilots” are stricken as obsolete.

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1982— struck out “, and at least one of which is designated by the Civil Aeronautics Authority for the training of Negro air pilots” after “competent orders”.