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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
[Summary Notice No. PE-94-9]

 

Petitions for Exemption, Summary of Petitions Received; 
Dispositions of Petitions Issued

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of petitions for exemption received and of dispositions 
of prior petitions.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to FAA's rulemaking provisions governing the 
application, processing, and disposition of petitions for exemption (14 
CFR part 11), this notice contains a summary of certain petitions 
seeking relief from specified requirements of the Federal Aviation 
Regulations (14 CFR chapter I), dispositions of certain petitions 
previously received, and corrections. The purpose of this notice is to 
improve the public's awareness of, and participation in, this aspect of 
FAA's regulatory activities. Neither publication of this notice nor the 
inclusion or omission of information in the summary is intended to 
affect the legal status of any petition or its final disposition.

DATES: Comments on petitions received must identify the petition docket 
number involved and must be received on or before March 17, 1994.

ADDRESSES: Send comments on any petition in triplicate to: Federal 
Aviation Administration, Office of the Chief Counsel, Attn: Rule Docket 
(AGC-200), Petition Docket No. ________, 800 Independence Avenue SW., 
Washington, DC 20591.
    The petition, any comments received, and a copy of any final 
disposition are filed in the assigned regulatory docket and are 
available for examination in the Rules Docket (AGC-200), room 915G, FAA 
Headquarters Building (FOB 10A), 800 Independence Avenue SW., 
Washington, DC 20591; telephone (202) 267-3132.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:Mr. Frederick M. Haynes, Office of 
Rulemaking (ARM-1), Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence 
Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20591; telephone (202) 267-3939.
    This notice is published pursuant to paragraphs (c), (e), and (g) 
of Sec. 11.27 of Part 11 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (14 CFR 
part 11).

    Issued in Washington, DC on February 21, 1994.
Donald P. Byrne,
 Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations.

Petitions for Exemption

    Docket No.: 23455.
    Petitioner: Reeve-Aleutian Airways, Inc..
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.574(a) (1), (3) and (4).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To Extend Exemption No. 
4692 to continue to permit the petitioner to carry and operate aboard 
its aircraft, certain oxygen storage, generating, and dispensing 
equipment for medical use by patients, when the oxygen and equipment is 
furnished and maintained by hospitals, clinics, or city/village 
emergency medical services within the state of Alaska.

    Docket No.: 24605.
    Petitioner: World Jet Corporation dba KC Aviation.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.511(a) and 135.165(b).
    Description of Relief Sought: To amend Exemption No. 4961 to 
relieve the petitioner from the 30-minute very high frequency (VHF) 
communications gap restriction.

    Docket No.: 26048.
    Petitioner: National Test Pilot School.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.319(a) (1) and (2).
    Description of Relief Sought: To amend Exemption No. 5778 to: (1) 
Replace the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center with Joshua 
Approach in condition No. 3; (2) Eliminate condition No. (6), which 
prohibits aerobatic flight for aircraft operating under the exemption; 
and (3) add ``graduate military pilots who have at least 1,000 hours 
total time and have been on active duty military flying status within 
the prior 12 months'' to condition No. 9.

    Docket No.: 27243.
    Petitioner: Chalk's International Airlines.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.153.
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To amend Exemption No. 
5769 to permit the petitioner to operate Grumman Turbo Mallard aircraft 
(G-73T) south of the 29th parallel after April 20, 1994, without the 
installation of ground proximity warning systems. The current exemption 
restricts such operations to below the 27th parallel.

    Docket No.: 27506.
    Petitioner: Northeast Helicopter Services, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR Part 45.
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the petitioner 
to reduce the registration numbers, for two UH-1B Huey helicopters, to 
2 inches and to change the registration numbers' location from the tail 
boom to the upper portion of the tail yoke.

    Docket No.: 27576.
    Petitioner: Des Moines Public Schools.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 147.13 and 147.17(a)(1).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the students of 
the Central Campus Aviation Technology Program in Des Moines, Iowa to 
use Indian Hills Community college's equipment (components and mockups) 
in Ottumwa, Iowa until the Central Campus Aviation Technology Program 
can obtain or build the equipment.

    Docket No.: 27590.
    Petitioner: Mr. Paul Schneider.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.383(c).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the petitioner 
to serve as a pilot in Part 121 air carrier operations after reaching 
his 60th birthday.

Dispositions of Petitions

    Docket No.: 27193.
    Petitioner: Rocky Mountain Helicopters, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.143(c)(2).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the petitioner 
to operate without a TSO-C112 (Mode S) transponder installed on its 
aircraft operating under the provisions of part 135.
    Grant, February 16, 1994, Exemption No. 5774A

    Docket No.: 27303.
    Petitioner: Bay Aviation.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 141.65.
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the petitioner 
to hold examining authority for the certified flight instructor (CFI) 
written tests.
    Denial, February 16, 1994, Exemption No. 5844

    Docket No.: 27348.
    Petitioner: Northeast Express Regional Airlines dba Northwest 
Airlink.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 61.57(e)(1)(i); 
121.433(c)(iii); 121.440(a); 121.441(a)(1) and (b)(1); 135.293 (a) and 
(b); 135.297 (a), (b), and (c)(1); 135.299(a); part 61, appendix A; and 
part 121, appendix F.
    Description of Relief Sought: To allow the petitioner to establish 
an annual single visit training program (SVTP) for its flight 
crewmembers, and allow it to transition into the advanced qualification 
program (AQP) codified in Special Federal Aviation Regulation (SFAR) 
58.
    Partial Grant, February 15, 1994, Exemption No. 5843

    Docket No.: 27501.
    Petitioner: Cessna Aircraft Company.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 25.562.
    Description of Relief Sought: To allow exemption from the dynamic 
seat testing requirements for the cockpit forward observer seat on the 
Cessna Model 750 Citation X (ten) airplane..
    Denial, January 28, 1994, Exemption No. 5836

    Docket No.: 27561.
    Petitioner: Lloyd Aereo Boliviano S.A. (LAB).
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 129.18.
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the petitioner 
to operate in the U.S. airspace, from December 31, 1993, through March 
31, 1994, without the required TCAS II equipment installed in one of 
its aircraft.
    Denial, February 14, 1994, Exemption No. 5842

    Docket No.: 27554.
    Petitioner: Federal Express.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.343(c).
    Description of Relief Sought: To allow Mountain Air Cargo, 
Corporate Air, and Empire Airlines to continue operating until November 
30, 1994, 31 Fokker F-27 aircraft that are not expected to be fitted by 
May 26, 1994, with digital flight data recorders capable of 
simultaneously recording at least 11 flight parameters.
    Denial, February 14, 1994, Exemption No. 5841

    Docket No.: 27569.
    Petitioner: Aris Helicopters, Ltd.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.143(c)(2).
    Description of Relief Sought: To allow the petitioner to operate 
without a TSO-C112 (Mode S) transponder installed on its aircraft 
operating under the provisions of part 135.
    Grant, February 9, 1994, Exemption No. 5840

    Docket No.: 27573.
    Petitioner: Richard A. Henson.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 25.811(f).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit type 
certification of his Learjet Model 31A without the required emergency 
exit outline bands.
    Grant, February 1, 1994, Exemption No. 5832A

Good Cause

    Docket No.: 26538.
    Petitioner: A.C.E. Flyers, Inc. dba Jay Hawk Air.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 43.3(g).
    Description of Relief Sought: To extend Exemption No. 5430 to 
continue to allow appropriately trained and certified pilots employed 
by the petitioner to remove and replace aircraft cabin seats in company 
aircraft during part 135 operations, subject to certain limits and 
conditions.

    Docket No.: 27529.
    Petitioner: Airway Transport.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.607.
    Description of Relief Sought: To allow the carrying of a normal 
crew plus 40 passengers on a Douglas DC-3 N7500A aircraft between 
November 1993 and May 30, 1994 (skydiving competitions).

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