2013 New York Consolidated Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 14 - (240 - 251-C) AIRCRAFT
243 - Aircraft; construction, design and airworthiness; federal registration.

 
    §  243.  Aircraft;  construction,  design  and  airworthiness; federal
  registration. The public safety requiring, and the advantages of uniform
  regulation  making  it  desirable,  in  the  interest  of   aeronautical
  progress, that aircraft to be avigated within this state should conform,
  with  respect  to  design,  construction and airworthiness, to standards
  prescribed by the United States government with respect to avigation  of
  aircraft  subject  to  its  jurisdiction,  it  shall be unlawful for any
  person to avigate an aircraft within this state unless  it  is  licensed
  and  registered by the department of transportation of the United States
  in the manner prescribed by the lawful  rules  and  regulations  of  the
  United  States  government  then in force. The license for such aircraft
  must be carried and  conspicuously  posted  in  the  aircraft  while  in
  flight.  Such license also shall be presented for inspection, on demand,
  to any peace officer, acting pursuant to his special duties,  or  police
  officer,  or  to any official, manager or person in charge of an airport
  or landing place where the aircraft  may  be.  The  provisions  of  this
  section shall not apply to aircraft used exclusively in the governmental
  service  of the United States, or used exclusively in the service of the
  national guard or of one or more of the civil departments of this state.