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Do pilots need to keep endorsements after their checkrides?

Asked by: 1590 views Commercial Pilot, Instrument Rating, Private Pilot, Student Pilot

I’ve been working on migrating my logbook to ForeFlight, and I’m wondering what to do with my ten plus years of endorsements from my Instrument, Private and commercial check rides. I can’t find a FAR that addresses endorsement records for pilots as opposed to the 3 year rule for CFIs.

My question is, beyond BFR, complex, high performance endorsements etc., is there any legal requirement to keep my endorsements for each checkride? (Pre requisites, pre solo knowledge, written, deficiencies etc.) 

I can still keep them, but I would probably just file them away at home instead of have awkward records in my digital logbook. Thanks!

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  1. Russ Roslewski on May 16, 2022

    There’s really no need to bother importing them over into your FF logbook. The only possible reason I can see for keeping them at all is in case there was some question in the future about your qualifications (like during an enforcement action). And if that was the case, it’s not like you’d have to be able to present them immediately – you’d just dig your old logbooks out of the safe or wherever you keep them. You didn’t plan on actually discarding your paper logbooks, did you?

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