# Private Pilot Certificate — helicopter — 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(c)(2); requirement is night flight training; value is 3 hours of night flight training in a helicopter, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10. - **Authority:** FAA (United States) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_ - **Provision:** 14 CFR 61.109(c)(2) - **Requirement:** night flight training _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_ - **Value:** 3 hours of night flight training in a helicopter _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ ## What the source says > 3 hours of night flight training in a helicopter that includes ## 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/).