You have arrived looking for DD Form 2400. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Civil Aircraft Certificate of Insurance. Full title: DD Form 2400, Civil Aircraft Certificate of Insurance, January 2008.
Your second step is the edition, not stated, listed as not stated. Your third is scope. Because the number carries a DD prefix, you use the same blank as every other military department and defense agency; no service-specific version exists for you to hunt down.
Then settle the schedule. You are working under not stated, with not stated responsible for the document, and your organization layers its own deadlines on that. Ask before you assume a date.
Last in this stage, choose your method: complete it on screen, or print the blank form and fill it out in pen. The sections below take each route step by step.
Now fill it in. Work from the top of the page downward, and do not jump ahead — the identifying block comes first, the substance of your entry second, the certification last. Later boxes often depend on what you put at the top.
Before your first entry, look at the corner of the page and compare the printed date with not stated. If they do not match, stop and download again. Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
For questions about a specific entry, check the form's own instructions, and if that does not settle it, open not stated. The directive controls where they differ.
Download the form
Begin by choosing a file. Available here: PDF. Plan for 2 pages and about 23 entries.
Check your software before choosing xfdl. That format belongs to IBM Lotus Forms, long used for Defense form distribution, and it needs the matching viewer. Get the viewer installed, then come back for the file.
All of it downloads free. When you are ready to work, do this: save the file locally, then open it in a full pdf application. Browsers often ignore field properties, and you can lose everything you typed.
What the form asks for
- 1. Today's date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 3. Insured (user). a. Name.
- 3.b. Address (Street, City, State and ZIP Code).
- 2.b. Address (Street, City, State and ZIP Code).
- 2. Insurer. a. Name.
- 4. Aircraft Policy Data. a. Policy number(s).
- 4.b. Effective date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 4.c. Expiration date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 4.d. Geographical area or limit of policy coverage.
- 4.e. Aircraft registration number(s).
- 5. Aircraft Liability Coverage. a. Bodily injury. (1) Amount of insurance for each person (U.S. dollars).
- 5.c. Passenger. (1) Amount of insurance for each person.
- 5.a. (2) Amount of bodily injury insurance for each accident.
- 5.b.(2) Amount of property damage insurance for each accident.
- 5.c.(2) Amount of passenger insurance for each accident.
- 6. Single Limit (If the aircraft are insured with a single limit of liability, the amount of the single limit must be equal to or greater than the combined amount of bodily injury, property damage, and passenger liability specified in applicable military regulations listed in NOTE 1 on back) (Must be stated in U.S. Dollars.).
- 7. Excess Liability (If the aircraft are insured by a combination of primary and excess policies, the combined amounts of bodily injury, property damage, and passenger liability, respectively must be equal to or greater than those specified in applicable military regulations listed in NOTE 1 on reverse, NOTE: When this entry is completed, include primary policy numbers or amounts over which the excess applies. Show whether excess applies to bodily injury, property damage, or passenger liability) (Must be stated in U.S. Dollars).
- 9. Certification. a. Typed name of insurer's authorized representative.
- 9.b. Signature.
- 9.c. Title.
- 9.d. Telephone number (Include Area Code).
- If additional space is required, continue here (refer to item number).
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
Submit the completed form through the channel not stated or your local guidance specifies. Save a copy for yourself before it leaves your hands, whether that means a scan, a photograph or a duplicate file.
If the form points you to another document, you can find it by number alone. DD numbering runs across the whole Department, so you do not need to work out which service issued it — one number, one form, everywhere.
Be careful when a procedure pairs this form with a service form. Read the prefix, not just the digits. Service forms answer to a service proponent, while DD forms answer to not stated or an equivalent Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Grabbing the wrong prefix gets you a form that has nothing to do with your task.
Come back and check the edition next time you need this form. Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the information collected changes, or when the required notice language is updated, and none of those events reaches you directly. Verifying not stated at the moment you download is the whole defence.
Before you go, note what is not covered here. You have the blank form and instructions for completing it; you do not have legal guidance, and no statement on this page determines what any office will do with your submission. Direct those questions to not stated, to the personnel office that serves you, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2400?
- DD Form 2400, Civil Aircraft Certificate of Insurance, January 2008
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?