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INTERPRETATION                21

(t) "Owner when used with reference to an aircraft, means the person in whose name the aircraft is registered, and shall include any person in possession of an aircraft under a contract providing that the ownership, title and property therein is to vest in him at a subsequent time upon payment of the whole or part of the price or the performance of any other condition, except when such aircraft is under bona fide lease or hire to some other person and is under the control of and being operated by such other person, when and in which event the lessee or hirer shall be deemed to be and shall be the owner of such aircraft within the meaning of these regulations.
(u) "Operator" when used with reference to an aircraft, means the person who is in possession or control of the aircraft, whether as owner, lessee, hirer, or otherwise, and shall include the pilot or person in charge thereof.
(v) "Operator" when used with reference to an airport, means the holder of the airport licence, and includes the person in charge of such airport, whether the employee, agent or representative of the holder of the airport licence. 
(w) "Acrobatics" means any aerial manoeuvres voluntarily accomplished other than those which are carried out in the course of normal flight or necessitated by an emergency or abnormal flight conditions.
(x) "Contracting State" means any state which is, for the time being, a party to the International Convention relating to Air Navigation, and these regulations shall apply to aircraft possessing the nationality of a state in respect of which state a derogation to His Majesty in the right of the Dominion of Canada has been granted under the protocol, as they apply to aircraft possessing the nationality of a contracting state.
(y) "Night" means between half an hour after sunset and half an hour before sunrise, except in flights beyond Canada when it means between sunset and sunrise.
(z) "Scheduled Air Transport Service" means a service on which aircraft are operated regularly between