# Private Pilot Certificate — airplane single-engine — Pilot licence minimum hours, age and prerequisites by civil aviation authority

For Private Pilot Certificate, authority is FAA (United States); provision is 14 CFR 61.109(a)(2)(i); requirement is night flight training; value is One cross-country flight of over 100 nautical miles total distance, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Authority:** FAA (United States) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Provision:** 14 CFR 61.109(a)(2)(i)
- **Requirement:** night flight training _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Value:** One cross-country flight of over 100 nautical miles total distance _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> One cross-country flight of over 100 nautical miles total distance

## Source

- https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/61.109

Last verified: 2026-08-10. Review by: 2027-08-10.
Part of [Pilot licence minimum hours, age and prerequisites by civil aviation authority](https://referencesource.org/pilot-licence-minimum-requirements-by-authority/).