§ 9441. Status as federally chartered corporation; purposes
(a)
Status.—
(1)
The Civil Air Patrol is a nonprofit corporation that is federally chartered under section
40301 of title
36.
(2)
Except as provided in section
9442
(b)(2) of this title, the Civil Air Patrol is not an instrumentality of the Federal Government for any purpose.
(b)
Purposes.—
The purposes of the Civil Air Patrol are set forth in section
40302 of title
36.