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14 CFR part 22 · Van Nuys Airport

Light Sport Aircraft Rules After MOSAIC: What LSA Means Now

The definition of “light-sport aircraft” in 14 CFR 1.1, with its 1,320 lb weight limit, stopped deciding what a sport pilot may fly on 22 October 2025 and was removed from 14 CFR 1.1 on 24 July 2026. Light-sport still exists as an airworthiness category under 14 CFR 21.190, now built on the new 14 CFR part 22, but it no longer decides what a sport pilot may fly.

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The Short Answer

What Are The Light Sport Aircraft Rules After MOSAIC?

Light sport aircraft no longer have a 1,320 lb weight limit. Under MOSAIC, a light-sport category airplane may have up to 4 seats and a VS0 stall of 61 knots or less (14 CFR 22.100). A sport pilot may fly any airplane with a VS1 of 59 knots or less and up to 4 seats (14 CFR 61.316).

  • Sport pilot aircraft limits moved to 14 CFR 61.316 on 22 October 2025.
  • The old 14 CFR 1.1 light-sport definition was removed effective 24 July 2026.
  • A sport pilot may still carry only one passenger (14 CFR 61.315(c)(4)).
  • Day sport flying still needs only a US driver's license (14 CFR 61.23(c)).
Check If An Aircraft QualifiesWalk through the 14 CFR 61.316 test for a specific airframe, step by step.

Source: 14 CFR 22.100, 61.23, 61.315 and 61.316 and the MOSAIC final rule (90 FR 35034), checked against the eCFR (current to 14 October 2026), October 2026

Quick Answers

Light Sport Aircraft At A Glance

What Is A Light Sport Aircraft
An aircraft certificated in the light-sport category under 14 CFR 21.190, to the standards in 14 CFR part 22
Old 14 CFR 1.1 Definition
Stopped deciding sport pilot privileges on 22 October 2025 and was removed on 24 July 2026
Light Sport Airplane Limits
Up to 4 seats, VS0 stall of 61 kt CAS or less, VH of 250 kt CAS or less, unpressurized (14 CFR 22.100)
Weight Limit
None. The old 1,320 lb limit no longer appears in the regulations
What A Sport Pilot May Fly
Any aircraft meeting 14 CFR 61.316: for airplanes, VS1 of 59 kt CAS or less and up to 4 seats
Light Sport License
The FAA calls it a sport pilot certificate: at least 20 hours for airplanes under 14 CFR 61.313
Passengers
One, under 14 CFR 61.315(c)(4), even in a four-seat airplane
Medical
A valid US driver's license by day under 14 CFR 61.23(c)(1). Night needs a medical or BasicMed (14 CFR 61.329)
Altitude Limit
10,000 ft MSL or 2,000 ft AGL, whichever is higher (14 CFR 61.315(c)(11))
22 Oct 202514 CFR 61.316 took effect and replaced the 14 CFR 1.1 light-sport test
24 Jul 202614 CFR part 22 took effect, Amendment 22-1
1,320 lbno longer a regulatory limit anywhere in part 61
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The change

Is There Still Such A Thing As A Light Sport Aircraft?

Yes, but it means something narrower than it used to. Light-sport is now an airworthiness category and nothing more. 14 CFR 21.190 still issues a special airworthiness certificate for a light-sport category aircraft, and since 24 July 2026 the design and production standards behind that certificate live in the new 14 CFR part 22.

What it is no longer is a pilot privilege. Before MOSAIC, sport pilot privileges pointed at the light-sport aircraft definition in 14 CFR 1.1, which set a 1,320 lb maximum takeoff weight (1,430 lb on floats), two seats, and a 45 knot CAS stall speed. It stopped deciding sport pilot privileges on 22 October 2025, when 14 CFR 61.316 took effect, and it was removed from 14 CFR 1.1 itself on 24 July 2026. Look the section up now and there is no entry beginning “Light-sport” and no mention of 1,320 pounds.

What replaced it is 14 CFR 61.316, which sits in part 61 with the pilot rules rather than in part 1 with the definitions. That relocation is the point of the whole exercise: the FAA moved the test from the aircraft's paperwork to the aircraft's performance.

The practical consequence is that two questions people used to treat as one are now separate. What airworthiness certificate does this aircraft hold? And may a sport pilot fly it? Those can now have different answers in both directions.

Cessna 162 Skycatcher two-seat light sport trainer at Van Nuys Airport
Then and now

What Changed And What Did Not

MOSAIC rewrote the aircraft side and the pilot side in one rule, 90 FR 35034, published 24 July 2025. The effective dates split by amendatory instruction number rather than by subject: most of the rule took effect 22 October 2025, and a second set of amendments — including removal of the § 1.1 light-sport aircraft definition and the new light-sport airworthiness requirements in 14 CFR part 22 — took effect 24 July 2026.

QuestionBefore MOSAICNowRule
Where is “light-sport aircraft” defined?14 CFR 1.1Nowhere in 14 CFR 1.1 — the definition was deleted90 FR 35034
What decides which aircraft a sport pilot may fly?The 14 CFR 1.1 definition14 CFR 61.316, a performance and design test14 CFR 61.316
Maximum takeoff weight1,320 lb, or 1,430 lb on floatsNo weight criterion exists14 CFR 61.316
Stall speed45 kt CAS59 kt CAS for airplanes at max certificated takeoff weight; 45 kt CAS for other categories14 CFR 61.316(a)(1)
Seats2Up to 4 for airplanes; 2 for other categories14 CFR 61.316(a)(2)
Does the light-sport airworthiness category still exist?YesYes, under 14 CFR 21.190, now referencing 14 CFR part 2214 CFR 21.190
Can a standard-category airplane be flown by a sport pilot?Only if it happened to meet the 14 CFR 1.1 definitionYes, if it meets 14 CFR 61.31614 CFR 61.316
Night flyingProhibited outrightPermitted under 14 CFR 61.329 with training, an endorsement and a medical or BasicMed14 CFR 61.329
Sport pilot medical basisUS driver license under 14 CFR 61.23(c)(1)Unchanged — still a US driver license under 14 CFR 61.23(c)(1)14 CFR 61.23(c)(1)

The row that matters most for buyers is the seventh. Airworthiness category and pilot privilege are now separate questions. Our MOSAIC aircraft eligibility page walks through how to check a specific airframe.

Part 22

What Is 14 CFR Part 22 And Who Does It Affect?

14 CFR part 22 is titled “Design, Production, and Airworthiness Requirements for Non-Type Certificated Aircraft”. It was added by Amendment 22-1 at 90 FR 35208 and took effect on 24 July 2026, a year after the pilot half of MOSAIC.

It is a manufacturer's rule, not a pilot's rule. If you are learning to fly, part 22 will never appear in your logbook and will not be on your knowledge test in any form you need to memorize. What it does is set the standards a manufacturer has to meet to get a light-sport category airworthiness certificate under 14 CFR 21.190 for an aircraft that does not hold a type certificate.

The reason it matters to a student anyway is supply. The old consensus-standard regime was built around the 1,320 lb ceiling, and it shaped what manufacturers built for twenty years. Part 22 is written for a world where the pilot-side test is a stall speed, which means the aircraft that get built for this market can be larger, heavier and better equipped than the ones that came before.

We are not going to speculate about which models arrive or when. Anyone telling you confidently what the 2027 training fleet looks like is guessing. What is already true is that the certificate is no longer defined by the airplane, which is a much better position for a student to be in.

Training aircraft over the San Fernando Valley near Van Nuys Airport
Terminology

Six Terms People Mix Up, And What Each One Now Means

Most of the confusion about this rule is vocabulary rather than substance. These six words are doing different jobs from the ones they did before October 2025.

1

Light-Sport Aircraft (LSA)

An airworthiness category under 14 CFR 21.190, built on 14 CFR part 22 since 24 July 2026. It describes how the aircraft was certificated. It no longer describes what a sport pilot may fly.

2

Sport Pilot

A pilot certificate under 14 CFR part 61 subpart J. Its aircraft privileges come from 14 CFR 61.316 and its operating limits from 14 CFR 61.315.

3

14 CFR 61.316

The performance and design test that decides eligibility: 59 knots CAS VS1 for airplanes, up to four seats, unpressurised, fixed gear and a fixed, ground-adjustable or automated controllable-pitch propeller.

4

Standard Category

An aircraft holding a type certificate and a standard airworthiness certificate. Since MOSAIC, a standard-category airplane that meets 14 CFR 61.316 is available to a sport pilot — which was largely not the case before.

5

VS1 And VS0

VS1 is the clean stall; VS0 is the landing-configuration stall and is always lower. 14 CFR 61.316(a)(1) asks for the speed without lift-enhancing devices, so VS1 is the figure that decides eligibility.

6

Experimental Light-Sport (E-LSA)

A separate special airworthiness certificate under 14 CFR 21.191, not the same thing as light-sport category under 21.190. As with everything else, whether a sport pilot may fly one is decided by 14 CFR 61.316, not by the certificate it holds.

For owners

What This Means If You Own Or Are Buying An Aircraft

Four practical consequences, in the order they tend to come up. None of them requires a lawyer; all of them require the flight manual.

01

Your Airworthiness Certificate Did Not Change

MOSAIC did not reissue anybody's airworthiness certificate. An aircraft in the light-sport category on 21 October 2025 was still in it on 23 October 2025. What changed is what that category implies about who may fly the aircraft.

02

Check VS1 Once, And Write It Down

The published VS1 at maximum certificated takeoff weight and most critical center of gravity, in knots calibrated airspeed. If it is 59 or less and the airplane has four seats or fewer, fixed gear and a fixed, ground-adjustable or automated controllable-pitch propeller, a sport pilot may fly it. Retractable landing gear, or a manual controllable-pitch propeller, needs the 14 CFR 61.331 endorsement first.

03

Modifications Will Not Help

14 CFR 61.316(a) requires the aircraft to have met the criteria since its original certification. This is the sentence that stops an owner from buying eligibility with an STC, and it is worth reading before you spend money on one.

04

Maintenance Rules Follow The Airworthiness Certificate, Not The Pilot

Whether an aircraft can be maintained by a light-sport repairman, and what inspections it needs, follows from its airworthiness certificate and its category. Do not assume that because a sport pilot may fly it, light-sport maintenance rules apply to it.

05

Insurance Asks A Different Question Again

An insurer asks what certificate the pilot holds and what the aircraft is. Those two answers now interact differently from how they did before October 2025, so tell your broker rather than assuming.

06

Bring It To Us If You Want A Second Read

We will open the flight manual and the type certificate data sheet with you at a free consultation. Half an hour, no obligation, and you leave with the number written down.

The fleet

What We Operate, And Which Category Each Aircraft Sits In

We own and maintain the fleet. Sport training here is flown in the two-seat Cessna 162.

Cessna 162 Skycatcher two-seat trainer at Van Nuys Airport
Cessna 162 Skycatcher — the two-seat trainer most sport students learn in
Diamond DA20 two-seat trainer on the ramp at Van Nuys Airport
Diamond DA20 — two seats, a bubble canopy and a very honest feel
Piper Warrior four-seat training aircraft at Van Nuys Airport
Piper Warrior — four seats, where private pilot students spend most of their hours
Piper Arrow II on the ramp at Van Nuys Airport
Piper Arrow II — the complex trainer, and a good example of why 61.331 exists
Cirrus SR22 Turbo with glass cockpit at Van Nuys Airport
Cirrus SR22 Turbo — glass panel and a whole-airframe parachute, on the Premium program
Piper Seminole twin engine training aircraft at Van Nuys Airport
Piper Seminole — the twin, for the multi-engine add-on later

The Cessna 162 is the aircraft most sport students learn in, and its 1,320 lb maximum takeoff weight is a fact about that airframe rather than a regulatory ceiling. What a sport pilot may fly is decided by 14 CFR 61.316 — see the MOSAIC rule pillar for the whole picture.

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Instructors Who Read The Rule Rather Than The Summary Of The Rule

Every instructor here holds a commercial or ATP certificate plus a CFI and a current medical, and the instructor is legally pilot in command on every flight you take with them. Eleven of them.

This particular rule change has produced an unusual amount of confident nonsense, most of it repeated second-hand. We briefed the whole instructor group on 14 CFR 61.316, 61.329 and part 22 from the text rather than from a trade summary, because the failure mode is an instructor endorsing a privilege the regulation does not grant.

Flight instructor and student in the cockpit of a training aircraft at Van Nuys
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FAQ

Light Sport Aircraft After MOSAIC: The Questions We Get Asked

No. The definition of light-sport aircraft in 14 CFR 1.1, with its 1,320 lb maximum takeoff weight, stopped deciding sport pilot privileges on 22 October 2025 and was removed from 14 CFR 1.1 on 24 July 2026. Light-sport survives as an airworthiness category under 14 CFR 21.190, but what a sport pilot may fly is now decided by 14 CFR 61.316.

Design, Production, and Airworthiness Requirements for Non-Type Certificated Aircraft, added by Amendment 22-1 at 90 FR 35208 and effective 24 July 2026. It sets the standards behind a light-sport category airworthiness certificate issued under 14 CFR 21.190. It is a manufacturer's rule, not a pilot's rule.

Yes. It lived in the 14 CFR 1.1 definition that MOSAIC deleted. 14 CFR 61.316, which replaced it for pilot-privilege purposes, contains no weight criterion at all.

No, not since 22 October 2025. A standard-category airplane that meets 14 CFR 61.316 is available to a sport pilot, and a light-sport-category aircraft that does not meet 61.316 is not.

LSA describes how an aircraft was certificated — an airworthiness category under 14 CFR 21.190. 14 CFR 61.316 describes what a sport pilot may fly, using a stall speed and design test. Since MOSAIC these are two separate questions.

The rule package covered light-sport repairman certification and LSA maintenance alongside the pilot and certification changes, all under 90 FR 35034. Maintenance requirements follow the aircraft's airworthiness certificate and category, not the certificate held by the pilot flying it.

No. Experimental light-sport is a special airworthiness certificate under 14 CFR 21.191; light-sport category is issued under 14 CFR 21.190. Whether a sport pilot may fly either is decided by 14 CFR 61.316.

The final rule was published at 90 FR 35034 on 24 July 2025. The effective dates split by amendatory instruction number rather than by subject. Most of the rule, including the sport pilot changes, took effect on 22 October 2025; a second set of amendments — including removal of the § 1.1 light-sport aircraft definition and the new light-sport airworthiness requirements in 14 CFR part 22 — took effect on 24 July 2026.

Yes. Sport training at LA Flight School is flown in the two-seat Cessna 162 Skycatcher at Van Nuys, and the complete package is $8,400. MOSAIC widened what the certificate reaches; it did not narrow it.

No. 14 CFR 61.23(c)(1) still allows sport pilot privileges on a valid US driver license, subject to the conditions in 14 CFR 61.303(b). The paragraph now refers to aircraft meeting 14 CFR 61.316 instead of the deleted light-sport definition.

FAQ

More Light Sport Aircraft Questions

What License Do You Need To Fly A Light Sport Aircraft?

A sport pilot certificate is the minimum. For airplanes it takes at least 20 hours of flight time under 14 CFR 61.313, including 15 hours of instruction and 5 hours of solo. A private pilot or higher may also fly light sport aircraft. At LA Flight School the sport pilot program is $8,400, flown in the two-seat Cessna 162 Skycatcher at Van Nuys.

What Are The Light Sport Aircraft Requirements Under Part 22?

To be certificated in the light-sport category, an airplane must meet 14 CFR 22.100: no more than four seats including the pilot, a landing-configuration stall speed (VS0) of 61 knots CAS or less at maximum takeoff weight, a maximum level-flight speed of 250 knots CAS, and an unpressurized cabin. It must never have held a standard airworthiness certificate and must be built to FAA-accepted consensus standards.

Is The Light Sport Category Stall Limit The Same As The Sport Pilot Limit?

No, and the difference catches people out. Part 22 uses VS0, the landing-configuration stall, with a 61 knot limit for light-sport category airplanes. 14 CFR 61.316 uses VS1, the stall without lift-enhancing devices, with a 59 knot limit for what a sport pilot may fly. VS1 is always higher than VS0, so a light-sport category airplane is not automatically within sport pilot privileges. Check the published VS1.

How Many Passengers Can A Sport Pilot Carry In A Light Sport Airplane?

One. 14 CFR 61.315(c)(4) bars a sport pilot from acting as pilot in command while carrying more than one passenger, and MOSAIC did not change that. A sport pilot may fly a four-seat airplane that meets 14 CFR 61.316, but may still carry only one passenger in it. Filling the other seats takes a private pilot certificate.

Can A Private Pilot Fly A Light Sport Aircraft?

Yes. A private pilot with an airplane single-engine land rating may fly any airplane in that category and class, light sport aircraft included. Under 14 CFR 61.303, a private pilot who holds a medical certificate does not have to follow the sport pilot limits at all. A private pilot flying on a US driver's license alone, without a medical, must stay within the sport pilot limits in 14 CFR 61.315.

Is The Cessna 162 Skycatcher A Light Sport Aircraft?

Yes. The Cessna 162 Skycatcher is a two-seat light sport airplane with a 1,320 lb maximum takeoff weight, and LA Flight School flies five of them, with Garmin G300 displays, for sport pilot training at Van Nuys. Since MOSAIC, the 1,320 lb figure is a fact about the airframe rather than a legal ceiling. What a sport pilot may fly is decided by 14 CFR 61.316.

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It was a great flight! I did a sunset flight and Alex let us fly an awesome. Website was easy to book, and the plane itself was really fun to fly...
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Last minute booking to surprise my wife on our honeymoon. She had no experience with flying and was scared of flying, but Alex was very easygoing and knew...
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