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DD Form 2401 is a Department of Defense form, not a service form: DD Form 2401, Civil Aircraft Landing Permit, January 2008, used to Civil Aircraft Landing Permit. The DD prefix is the operative fact. It means one blank serves every military department — Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction — plus the defense agencies and combatant commands. No branch variant exists.
Authority: not stated prescribes it, not stated maintains it. Those two names settle most disputes about why the form is being asked for. Local commands add timing on top; the requirement itself comes from above them.
Current edition is not stated, carried as not stated. Check that against any copy you already hold before doing anything else — Department-level revisions land everywhere simultaneously, so a stale file is stale across the whole Department.
Formats: PDF. Length 2 pages, approximately 65 entries. Pick on the basis of how you will complete it.
Default to fillable pdf, print only when you must. The fillable file stores what you type; the printable file is a blank picture. A Department form often travels further than a service form — scanned, emailed, forwarded to an agency that never saw the original — and typed text is what survives that.
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.
Verify the edition before the first keystroke. The date on the form face should read not stated. If it does not, discard the file. Field numbering shifts between editions, and on a DD form the new layout reaches every receiving office in every service at once — there is no lag during which the old version is still normal somewhere.
Field-level questions go to the printed instructions, then to not stated, which is authoritative.
Send it as not stated or local guidance specifies. Save a copy. Cross-service and cross-agency routing is normal for Department forms, and a lost original outside your own organization is harder to chase down.
A number is a complete address in the DD series. Because the sequence is Department-level and not duplicated per service, there is nothing further to specify.
Prefix before number. A DA citation and a DD citation in the same instruction point at separate systems — one Army, administered by an Army proponent, one Department-wide under not stated — and there is no correspondence between them at any number.
Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the data collected changes, or when notice language is amended. None of that reaches you. Checking not stated at download is the entire defence, and it is cheaper than repeating a submission.
This page publishes a Defense document and explains its contents. It does not advise, does not rule on applicability, and determines nothing about how a completed form will be treated. Direct such questions to not stated, to the servicing personnel office, or to the office designated 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?