You have arrived looking for DD Form 2401. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Civil Aircraft Landing Permit. Full title: DD Form 2401, Civil Aircraft Landing Permit, January 2008.
Then look at the edition date: not stated, publisher status not stated. After that, ask whether the form covers your situation. It almost certainly does regardless of your branch — DD forms run Department-wide rather than through a single service.
After that, turn to timing. The requirement comes from not stated; the form is maintained by not stated. Local implementing instructions fill in the dates, so check with the office that will receive your copy.
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.
Begin at the top and move down. Enter your identifying data first, then the body of the form, then the signature block. The sequence is printed in that order because entries below frequently follow from entries above.
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 Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.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
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 2 pages, and you will complete roughly 65 fields.
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. User. a. Name.
- 1.b. Relationship to parent organization (if any).
- 1.c. Address (street, city, state and zip code).
- 2. Name of airfield(s) to be used.
- 3. Are pilots instrument rated and current? Press space bar to mark X in first box if yes, second box if no.
- 4. Purpose of use.
- f. Equipment. (1) 2-way radio. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- (2) Strobe warning lights. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- (3) Transponder. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- (4) IFR capabilities. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 5. Aircraft data. a. Manufacture, line 1.
- 5.b. Model.
- 5.c. Registration number.
- 5.d. Capacity. (1) Crew.
- 5.d.(2) Passenger.
- 5.e. Maximum gross takeoff weight (pounds).
- f. (1) 2-way radio. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- (2) Strobe warning lights. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- (4) IFR capabilities. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- (3) Transponder. X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 5.a. Manufacture, line 2.
- 5.b. Model.
- 5.c. Registration number.
- 5.d. (2) Crew capacity.
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.
Here is where people go wrong. They see a number in an instruction and download whichever form matches it. But DA and DD are separate systems — Army-specific in one case, Department-wide under not stated in the other — so check which series you were sent to before you take the file.
Do not archive this file and reuse it in a year. Forms are reissued as directives are revised, as data requirements shift, and as statutory notice text is amended. Your protection is simple: download fresh each time and confirm the edition date.
One thing this page does not do: tell you whether your submission will be accepted. We publish the document and explain how to complete it, and that is where our role ends. Nothing here is legal advice. Take questions about eligibility, applicability or procedure to not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2401?
- DD Form 2401, Civil Aircraft Landing Permit, 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?