[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 150 (Tuesday, August 5, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42153-42154]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-20566]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration
[Summary Notice No. PE-97-41]


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 August 25, 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, DC 20591.

    Comments may also be sent electronically to the following internet 
address: 9-NPRM-CMNTSfaa.dot.gov.
    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: Heather Thorson (202) 267-7470 or 
Angela Anderson (202) 267-9681 Office

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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).


    Issued in Washington, DC, on July 29, 1997.
Donald P. Byrne,
Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations.

Dispositions of Petitions

    Docket No.: 27188.
    Petitioner: Knighthawk Air Express Ltd.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 61.77(a).
    Description of Relied South/Disposition: To permit Knighthawk 
pilots to be issued special purpose pilot certificates to perform pilot 
duties on a civil airplane of U.S. registry, a Falcon 20D, Registration 
No. N950RA, without that airplane meeting the passenger seating 
configuration and payload capacity requirements of 14 CFR 61.77(a).

Grant, July 17, 1997, Exemption No. 6660

    Docket No.: 28079.
    Petitioner: General Electric Aircraft Engines.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 21.325(b)(1).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit General 
Electric Aircraft Engines (GEAE) to obtain export airworthiness 
approvals for Class I products manufactured under GEAE Production 
Certificate No. 107 at the Universal Maintenance Center of P.T. 
Industri Pesawat Terbang Nurtanio in Bandung, Indonesia.

Grant, July 17, 1997, Exemption No. 6139A

    Docket No.: 28760.
    Petitioner: Douglas Aircraft Company/McDonnell Douglas Corporation.
    Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 25.785(d), 25.807(c)(1), 
25.857(e), 25.1447(c)(1).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To allow for the 
accommodation of up to two supernumeraries immediately aft of the 
cockpit, and a crew rest facility immediately aft of the smoke barrier 
and crash net, on MD-11 freighter aircraft equipped with a Class E 
cargo compartment.

Grant, July 14, 1997, Exemption No. 6656

    Docket No.: 22706.
    Petitioner: Bankair, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.225(e)(1).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To allow Bankair's pilots 
to operate Bankair's aircraft at any U.S. military base that has 
adopted the criteria contained in the U.S. Standard for Terminal 
Instrument Procedures (TERPS) used for determining lower-than-standard 
departure minimums using takeoff visibility minimums that are less than 
1 mile and equal to or greater than the landing visibility minimums 
established for those airfields.

Grants, July 22, 1997, Exemption No. 6661

    Docket No.: 21605.
    Petitioner: Alaska Airlines, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 121.574(a) (1) and (3).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the carriage 
and operation of oxygen storage and dispensing equipment for medical 
use by patients requiring emergency or continuing medical attention 
while being carried as passengers where the oxygen equipment is 
furnished and maintained by hospitals treating the patients, within the 
states of Alaska or Washington, subject to certain conditions and 
limitations.

Grant, July 21, 1997, Exemption No. 3850F

    Docket No.: 27230.
    Petitioner: Era Aviation, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.143(c)(2).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To allow Era to operate 
certain helicopters under the provisions of part 135 without TSO-C112 
(Mode S) transponders.

Grant, July 24, 1997, Exemption No. 5718B

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