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20         AIR REGULATIONS, 1938

(k) "Customs airport" means an airport appointed by the Minister with the concurrence of the Minister of National Revenue and the Minister of Mines and Resources as an airport at which aircraft from abroad may alight, and from which aircraft bound abroad may take off. 
(l) "Flying" or "in flight" in relation to an aircraft means that the aircraft is off every supporting surface. 
(m) "Taking off" in relation to an aircraft means and includes the act of abandoning the support of a surface capable of supporting it and the immediately preceding and following acts; in relation to an airship or balloon it means and includes the act of freeing the airship or balloon from restraint, and the immediately preceding and following acts. 
(n) "Alighting" in relation to an aircraft means and includes the act of coming in contact with a surface capable of supporting aircraft, and the immediately preceding and following acts; in relation to an airship or free balloon it means and includes the act of bringing the airship or free balloon under restraint, and the immediately preceding and following acts. 
(o) "Pilot" in relation to an aircraft includes the person in charge thereof. 
(p)"Air engineer" means a person who is the holder of an Air Engineer's Certificate issued by the Minister authorizing him to act as therein specified. 
(r) (1) "State," in relation to aircraft, means that the aircraft belongs to and is exclusively employed in the service of the Dominion of Canada, of one of the Provinces of Canada, or of some other of His Majesty's Dominions.
       (2) All the state aircraft other than military, 
    customs and police aircraft shall be treated as "commercial" aircraft, and as such shall be subject to all the provisions of these regulations 
(s) "Commerical aircraft" means an aircraft operated or available for operation for remuneration or reward.(Amendment dated November 3, 1945.)