Argentina (AR) — civil law.
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Ley 17.285 — Código Aeronáutico
The Código Aeronáutico is national law, and it says so. Art. 197 makes the registration
and airworthiness certification of aircraft “materia de legislación nacional”. Art. 198
gives the national courts jurisdiction over “causas que versen sobre navegación aérea o
comercio aéreo en general”. Its Título IV (arts. 36–75) is the property law of aircraft.
Aircraft are cosas muebles registrables (art. 49). Title, mortgages, attachments and
leases go in the Registro Nacional de Aeronaves (arts. 45–47). A transfer is
ineffective against third parties until registered (art. 50). The hipoteca ranks
behind a closed list of five registered privileges (arts. 57–60). Those privileges are
extinguished by a venta judicial (art. 63 inc. 3). Grounded or wrecked aircraft
pass to the State if unclaimed for six months (art. 74). DNU 70/2023 rewrote much of
this title (arts. 190–202 of the DNU replaced CA arts. 36, 42, 45, 47, 48, 50–52, 60, 63, 68
and 74 and the heading of Chapter IX; art. 42 was replaced again by Decreto 338/2025), and the regulations were re-issued in 2024 (Decreto 639/2024 for the register,
Decreto 664/2024 for removal and abandonment). Pre-2024 commentary on aircraft registration
is therefore often wrong on details. See dnu-70-2023-y-ley-bases.
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