Abstract: The civil aircraft property registration systems are essential for facilitating property transactions in civil aviation area, and they also play a significant role in the development of aviation industry that heavily relies on the financial support. In China, the systems of civil aircraft property registration were established under the civil aviation law of 1995, and they secured the financial transactions through which Chinese airlines imported aircrafts. However, some problems, such as incompatibility with the practice of current aircraft property transactions, incompatibility with the property law in China, were exposed. For the future development of civil aviation industry of China, reform on the civil aircraft property registration systems must be carried out. And the most urgent measures for reform involve two expansions: the categories of property rights on aircraft and the objects of property rights.