---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 1443"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "1443"
heading: "Cancellation of leases of public lands used as airports made under law in force May 24, 1928"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/1443"
units:
  - "Chapter 30 — Administration of Public Lands"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Public Airports"
---

# §1443. Cancellation of leases of public lands used as airports made under law in force May 24, 1928


With the consent of the lessee, the [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) of the Interior is authorized to cancel any [lease](/usc/43/1331.md?p=c) of [public lands](/usc/43/155.md?p=1) for use as public aviation fields or airports, made under law in force May 24, 1928, and to [lease](/usc/43/1331.md?p=c) such lands to the lessee upon the conditions prescribed by [section 1442 of this title](/usc/43/1442.md).


## Source credit

(May 24, 1928, ch. 728, § 3, 45 Stat. 729.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was previously classified to section 213 of former Title 49, Transportation.