# Private Pilot Certificate — 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(k)(3); requirement is total flight time; value is a total of 35 hours; condition is an applicant who has satisfactorily completed an approved private pilot course conducted by a training center certificated under part 142, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Authority:** FAA (United States) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Provision:** 14 CFR 61.109(k)(3)
- **Requirement:** total flight time _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Value:** a total of 35 hours _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Condition:** an applicant who has satisfactorily completed an approved private pilot course conducted by a training center certificated under part 142

## What the source says

> part 142 of this chapter, need only have a total of 35 hours of

## Source

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

Last verified: 2026-08-10. Review by: 2027-08-10.
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