New York Laws
Article 14 - Aircraft
241 - Qualifications of Operator; Federal License.

ยง 241. Qualifications of operator; federal license. The public safety
requiring, and the advantages of uniform regulation making it desirable,
in the interest of aeronautical progress, that a person engaging within
this state in operating aircraft, in any form of avigation for which a
license to operate aircraft issued by the United States government would
then be required if such avigation were interstate, should have the
qualifications necessary for obtaining and holding such a license, it
shall be unlawful for any person to engage in operating aircraft within
the state, in any such form of avigation, unless he have such a license.