No instrument which affects the title to or interest in any civil aircraft of the United States, as defined by federal law, or any portion thereof, shall be valid in respect of such aircraft or portion thereof against any person other than the person by whom the instrument is made or given, his heir or devisee, and any person having actual notice thereof, until such instrument is recorded in the office of the Civil Aeronautic Administrator of the United States, or such other office as is designated by the laws of the United States as the one in which such instruments should be filed. Every such instrument so recorded in such office shall be valid as to all persons without further recordation in any office in this Commonwealth, the provisions of any other recordation statute to the contrary notwithstanding. Any instrument, recordation of which is required by the provisions of this section, shall take effect from the date of its recordation and not from the date of its execution.
1946, p. 387; Michie Suppl. 1946, § 5194a.