nonairworthy

English

Etymology

non- +‎ airworthy

Adjective

nonairworthy (not comparable)

1. Not meeting the standards for safe flight; unsafe for use in flight.
   • 1966 December, Patricia Demarest, “Presents for Pilots”, in Flying Magazine, volume 79, number 6, page 69:

     Ideal ornamentation for his den wall is a real (but nonairworthy) wooden propeller.

   • 2000, Peter Fusco, Moondog's Academy of the Air and Other Disasters, page 117:

     By order of the Administrator, this aircraft is declared nonairworthy and is hereby grounded.

   • 2017, Steven James Landry, Handbook of Human Factors in Air Transportation Systems, page 83:

     Observers do not intervene unless there is an imminent safety issue or if an aircraft would be flown in a nonairworthy condition.

   • 2023, Neal V. Loving, Loving's Love: A Black American's Experience in Aviation:

     We had a perfectly good airplane with a nonairworthy, nonrepairable engine.

2. Unrelated to airworthiness.
   • 1962, United States. Civil Aeronautics Board, Economic Decisions of the Civil Aeronautics Board, page 1052:

     Reginald Buffet, who served for a time as respondent's superintendent of maintenance, testified that all airworthy items were written in the log, and only nonairworthy items were submitted on a separate piece of paper. He cited as an example of a nonairworthy item the extension of a reclining seat (transcript 552, 553) .

   • 1986, United States. Department of the Army, Index and Description of Army Training Devices, pages 3-22:

     Construction is basically of actual helicopter nonairworthy components with only the minimum electrical system installed as necessary for the operation of the hydraulic and control system .