[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 131 (Wednesday, July 9, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36865-36866]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-17789]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration
[Summary Notice No. PE-97-37]


Petitions for Exemption; Summary of Petitions Received; 
Disposition 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 July 28, 1997.

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, 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 Rules Docket (AGC-200), Room 915G, FAA 
Headquarters Building (FOB 10A), 800 Independence Avenue, SW.,

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Washington, D.C. 20591; telephone (202) 267-3132.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Heather Thorson (202) 267-7470 or 
Angela Anderson (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).

    Issed in Washington, D.C., on July 1, 1997.
Donald P. Byrne,
Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations.

Petitions for Exemption

    Docket No.: 28935.
    Petitioner: Dornier Luftfahrt GmbH.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 21.19(b)(2).
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit Dornier to modify its 
Dornier 328-100 aircraft by replacing its two turbopropeller engines 
with two turbofan engines without applying for a new type certificate 
for that aircraft.

    Docket No.: 28934.
    Petitioner: Covington Aircraft Engines, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 45.13 (b) and (c).
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit Covington, instead of the 
engine manufacturer, to replace mutilated or unreadable data plates 
with a copy of the original data on Pratt and Whitney Wasp, Wasp, Jr., 
R985, and R1340 engines when an engine or component is overhauled at 
its facility.

    Docket No.: 28906.
    Petitioner: ElectroSonics.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 21.439(a)(2).
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit ElectroSonics to be 
eligible for Designated Alteration Station authorization without being 
a manufacturer of a produce for which it has alteration authority under 
14 CFR Sec. 43.3(i).

Dispositions of Petitions

    Docket No.: 26523.
    Petitioner: Lone Star Flight Museum.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 45.25 and 45.29.
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit petitioner and 
its members to continue to operate their historic military aircraft 
with 2-inch-high registration marks located beneath the horizontal 
stabilizer.
    Grant, June 20, 1997, Exemption No. 5344C.

    Docket No.: 28353.
    Petitioner: Augusta S.P.A.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 21.19(b)(1).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the petitioner 
to apply for an amendment to Type Certificate No. H7EU rather than 
applying for a new type certificate, to include a design change from 
two engines to one engine on the Agusta A119 helicopter.
    Grant, June 25, 1997, Exemption No. 6648.

    Docket No.: 22451.
    Petitioner: Air Transport Association of America.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.613, 121.619(a), and 
121.625.
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit petitioner to 
dispatch an airplane, under IFR, to a destination airport, and list an 
alternate airport for that destination airport when the TAF for either 
one or both of those airports indicates by the use of conditional words 
such as ``BECMG,'' ``PROB,'' or ``TEMPO,'' in the TAF that the weather 
could be below authorized weather minimums at the time of arrival, 
provided that the information contained in another time increment of 
the TAF used by the certificate holder's dispatch center shows, for 
each flight to be dispatched, that the weather at the destination 
airport and alternate airport listed in the dispatch release will be at 
or above authorized weather minimums at the time of arrival.
    Grant, June 23, 1997, Exemption No. 3585K.

    Docket No.: 24770.
    Petitioner: FlightSafety International.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 61.55 (b)(3); 61.56 (h)(2); 
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); 61.163(d)(1); 61.191(d); and 
61.197(e).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the petitioner 
to use FAA-approved simulators to meet certain flight experience 
requirements of part 61.
    Grant, June 24, 1997, Exemption No. 5324C.

    Docket No.: 27601.
    Petitioner: Austral Lineas Aereas.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 145.47(b).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the petitioner, 
and FAA-certificated repair station (No. ASTY739M), to substitute the 
calibration standards of the Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia 
Industrial (INTI), Argentina's national organization, for the 
calibration standards of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and 
Technology (NIST), formerly the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), to 
test its inspection and test equipment.
    Grant, June 27, 1997, Exemption No. 6651.

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