[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 194 (Friday, October 4, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52082-52083]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-25418]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
[Summary Notice No. PE-96-47]


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 October 23, 1996.

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.
    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 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:
Fred Haynes (202) 267-3939 or Marisa Mullen (202) 267-9681 Office of 
Rulemaking (ARM-1), Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence 
Avenue SW., Washington, DC 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).


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    Issued in Washington, DC, on September 30, 1996.
Joseph A. Conte,
Acting Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations.

Petitions for Exemption

    Docket No.: 28669.
    Petitioner: Elsinore LP.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 25.857(e), 25.785(d), and 
25.813(b).
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit the carriage of 
supernumerary passengers on an all-freighter airplane, pursuant to 
issuance of a Supplemental Type Certificate for the conversion of 
Airbus A300B2/B4-200 series and A300-600 series aircraft from passenger 
to freighter configuration.

Dispositions of Petitions

    Docket No.: 010SW.
    Petitioner: McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 27.1(a).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit an increase in 
maximum gross weight of the McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems Model 
MD900 from 6,000 to 7,000 pounds while maintaining the original normal 
category rotorcraft certification. Grant, September 5, 1996, Exemption 
No. 6505.

    Docket No.: 22872.
    Petitioner: Air Transport Association of America (ATA).
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 61.157(a); Item I(b) of 
appendix A to part 61; 121.424 (a), (b) and (d) (1); Item I(a) of 
appendix E to part 121; and Item I(b) of appendix F to part 121.
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To extend Exemption 4416 
to continue to permit ATA member airlines and other qualifying part 121 
certificate holders to conduct training and checking of pilots of 
airplanes requiring only two flight crewmembers on the required 
preflight inspection, both interior and exterior, using approved 
pictorial means. Grant, August 16, 1996, Exemption No. 4416F.

    .Docket No.: 23653.
    Petitioner: University of North Dakota.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 141 Appendixes A, C, D, F, and 
H.
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To extend and amend 
Exemption 3825 to continue to allow UND to graduate students who have 
been trained to a specific performance level rather than the minimum 
flight time requirements of part 141 and modify the curriculums in 
which students may be enrolled while training under this exemption. 
Grant, August 14, 1996, Exemption No. 3825H.

    Docket No.: 26915.
    Petitioner: Pan Am International Flight Academy, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 61.55(b)(3); 61.56(h) (1), 
(2), and (4); 61.57(c)(3) and (d)(2); 61.58(e); 61.64(e)(3); 61.65 
(e)(2), and (g)(1) and (3); 61.67(c)(4) and (d)(2); 61.158(d)(1); 
61.191(d); and 61.197(e).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To extend exemption 5495 
to continue to allow Pan Am to use FAA-approved simulators to meet 
certain flight experience requirements of part 61.Grant, August 21, 
1996, Exemption No. 5495B.

    .Docket No.: 27785.
    Petitioner: Chevron U.S.A. Production Company.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.143(c)(2).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To extend Exemption No. 
5948 to continue to allow the petitioner to operate without a TSO-C112 
(Mode S) transponder installed on its aircraft operating under to 
provisions of part 135. Grant, August 14, 1996, Exemption No. 5948A.

    Docket No.: 28556.
    Petitioner: Harry Veltman.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 61.183(c)(2).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To allow the petitioner 
to be eligible for a flight instructor certificate with an airplane 
category rating, without holding an instrument rating. Denial, August 
13, 1996, Exemption No. 6498.

    Docket No.: 28598.
    Petitioner: Boeing Commercial Airplane Group.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 25.1435(b)(1).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To allow type 
certification of the Model 777-300 by conducting a 3000 psig test of 
the modified/added hydraulic tubing runs form the stretched body 
sections, the spoiler retraction system, and any re-routed sections, 
while verifying the adequate clearances exist, and testing of the tail 
skid hydraulic system at the system relief pressure. Grant, September 
3, 1996, Exemption No. 6504.

    Docket No.: 28646.
    Petitioner: Air Georgian, LTD.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 61.77(a).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Air Georgian, 
LTD. pilots to be issued a special purpose pilot certificates to 
perform pilot duties on a Beechcraft-1900 (Registration No. N77YV), a 
civil airplane of U.S. registry, without that airplane meeting 
passenger seating configuration and payload capacity requirements. 
Grant, August 16, 1996, Exemption No. 6496.

    Docket No.: 28646.
    Petitioner: L. Harvey Poe, Jr.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 61.77(a).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To amend Exemption No. 
6496 to correct the petitioner's name from AIR Georgian, Ltd. to Simo 
Air, Ltd. Grant, August 22, 1996, Exemption No. 6596.

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