[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 168 (Wednesday, August 28, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44383-44384]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-21990]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
[Summary Notice No. PE-96-42]


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 September 10, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Send comments on any petition in triplicate to: Federal 
Aviation Administration, Office of the Chief Counsel, Attn: Rule Docket 
(AGC-

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200), Petition Docket No. ______, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., 
Washington, D.C. 20591.
    Comments may also be sent electronically to the following internet 
address: [email protected].
    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 Rule Docket (AGC-200), Room 915G, FAA 
Headquarters Building (FOB 10A), 800 Independence Avenue, SW., 
Washington, D.C. 20591; telephone (202) 267-3132.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mr. Federal Haynes, (202) 267-3939, or Ms. Marisa Mullen, (202) 267-
9681, Office of Rulemaking (ARM-1), Federal Aviation Administration, 
800 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, D.C. 20591.
    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, D.C., on August 23, 1996.
Donald P. Byrne,
Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations.

Dispositions of Petitions

    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/Disposition: To extend and amend 
Exemption No. 5778 to permit the National Test Pilot School to operate 
aircraft that have experimental certificates to train flight test 
students who are pilots and flight engineers through the demonstration 
and practice of flight test techniques, and to teach these students 
flight test data acquisition methods for compensation. GRANT, August 6, 
1996, Exemption No. 5778B.

    Docket No.: 26710.
    Petitioner: Skydive DeLand, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 105.43(a).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit nonstudent 
parachutists who are foreign nationals (foreign parachutists) to 
participate in parachute jumping events sponsored by Skydive Deland 
without complying with the FAA parachute equipment and packing 
requirements. GRANT, August 7, 1996, Exemption No. 5542B.

    Docket No.: 26896.
    Petitioner: Boeing Commercial Airplane Group.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 21.325(b)(3).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To extend and amend 
Exemption No. 5942 to allow the petitioner to issue export air 
worthiness approvals for not only Class II and Class III products 
located in England, Singapore, and Belgium, but also for products 
located in China, and any future location the petitioner may establish 
under the control of its existing FAA Production certificate and 
Organizational Designated Airworthiness Representative authority. 
DENIAL, July 22, 1996, Exemption No. 6481.

    Docket No.: 28373.
    Petitioner: Executive Jet Sales, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 43.9(a)(4), 43.11(a)(3), 
appendix B to part 43, 135.443(b)(3) and (c), and 145.57(a).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To allow the petitioner 
to use ``electronic signatures'' in lieu of physical signatures to 
satisfy the airworthiness release and/or approval for return-to-serves 
signature requirements. GRANT, July 31, 1996 Date, Exemption No. 6483.

    Docket No.: 28400.
    Petitioner: Skydive, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 105.43(a).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Skydive's 
employees, representatives, and customers to make tandem parachute 
jumps while wearing a dual-harness, dual-parachute pack, having at 
least one main parachute and one approved auxiliary parachute packed in 
accordance with Sec. 105.43(a); and permit pilots in command of 
aircraft involved in these operations to allow such persons to make 
these parachute jumps. GRANT, July 1996, Exemption No. 6482.

    Docket No.: 28459.
    Petitioner: Biplane Adventure Tours, LTD.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 119.1(e)(2).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To allow the petitioner 
to conduct sightseeing flights beyond the 25-statute-mile radius of Old 
Bridge Airport, New Jersey, without meeting the part 135 requirements. 
DENIAL, August 9, 1996, Exemption No. 6495.

    Docket No.: 28546.
    Petitioner: The Ranch Club, Ltd.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 105.43(a).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit nonstudent 
parachutists who are foreign nationals (foreign parachutists) to 
participate in parachute jumping events sponsored by The Ranch 
Parachute Club, Ltd. without complying with the FAA parachute equipment 
and packing requirements. GRANT, August 7, 1996, Exemption No. 6494.

Good Cause

    Docket No.: 26914.
    Petitioner: Air Transport Association of America.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.583(b) (c) and (d).
    Description of Relief Sought: To allow ATA member airlines and 
other similarly situated part 121 certificate holders to continue to 
carry Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) air traffic controllers and 
certain technical representatives in the cockpit observer's seat of 
all-cargo aircraft without meeting the passenger-carrying requirements 
of part 121, except as described in Sec. 121.583(b), (c), and (d).

    Docket No.: 28639
    Petitioner: Peninsula Airways, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.574(a) (1) and (3).
    Description of Relief Sought: To allow PenAir to carry and operate 
oxygen storage and dispensing equipment for medical use by passengers 
requiring emergency or continuing medical attention when the equipment 
is furnished and maintained by the hospital treating the passenger.

[FR Doc. 96-21990 Filed 8-27-96; 8:45 am]
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