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This chapter covers aircraft (heavier-than-air and lighter-than-air), spacecraft (including satellites), suborbital and spacecraft launch vehicles, and their parts. For the purposes of heading 8801, 'gliders' include hang gliders. Heading 8802 covers all powered aircraft (aeroplanes, helicopters) and spacecraft. Heading 8803 covers parts of goods of headings 8801 or 8802. The chapter does not cover goods of heading 9506 (parachutes for sport use), nor unmanned aircraft designed primarily for recreational purposes (heading 9503). Military aircraft and spacecraft are classified in this chapter, not in Chapter 93.

1. This Section does not cover articles of heading 9503 or 9508, or bobsleighs, toboggans or the like (heading 9506). 2. The expressions 'parts' and 'parts and accessories' do not apply to the following articles, whether or not they are identifiable as being for goods of this Section: (a) joints, washers or the like of any material (classified according to their constituent material or in heading 8484) or other articles of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber (heading 4016); (b) parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV) or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39); (c) articles of Chapter 82 (tools); (d) articles of heading 8306; (e) machines or apparatus of headings 8401 to 8479, or parts thereof; articles of heading 8481 or 8482 or, provided they constitute integral parts of engines or motors, articles of heading 8483; (f) electro-mechanical machines and apparatus (headings 8501 or 8502); articles of heading 8511 to 8513; electrical apparatus of heading 8530 or 8531; (g) articles of Chapter 90; (h) articles of Chapter 91; (ij) arms (Chapter 93); (k) lamps or lighting fittings of heading 9405. 3. References in Chapters 86 to 88 to 'parts' or 'accessories' do not apply to parts or accessories which are not suitable for use solely or principally with the articles of those Chapters. A part or accessory which answers to a description in two or more of the headings of those Chapters is to be classified in the heading appropriate to its principal use.