# 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); requirement is solo flight time; value is 10 hours of solo flight training, 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)
- **Requirement:** solo flight time _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Value:** 10 hours of solo flight training _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> authorized instructor and 10 hours of solo flight training in the areas of operation listed in

## 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/).