[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 207 (Monday, October 27, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55666-55667]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-28413]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration
[Summary Notice No. PE-97-53]


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 November 20, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Send comments on any petition in triplicate to: Federal 
Aviation Administration, Office of the Chief Counsel, Attn: Rules 
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., 
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, 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 Regulation (14 CFR 
Part 11).

    Issued in Washington, D.C., on October 21, 1997.
Donald P. Byrne,
Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations.

Petitions for Exemption

    Docket No.: 21780.
    Petitioner: Civil Air Patrol.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 61.118.
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit members of the CAP who are 
private pilots to continue to receive reimbursement for fuel, oil, and 
maintenance costs that are directly related to the performance of 
official CAP missions.

    Docket No.: 28975.
    Petitioner: AOG, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 145.37(b).
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit AOG to perform maintenance 
on flexible and integral fuel cells at its customers' facilities and 
maintenance on flexible fuel cells at the petitioner's facility without 
providing suitable permanent housing for at least one of the heaviest 
aircraft for which it is rated.

    Docket No.: 28905.
    Petitioner: Petroleum helicopters, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.152(a).
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit PHI to place two Bell 214ST 
helicopters (Registration Nos. N59805 and N59806, and Serial Nos. 28141 
and 28140, respectively), and one Bell 412SP helicopter (Registration 
No. N142PH, Serial No. 33150), on PHI's Operations Specifications and 
to operate those aircraft in nonscheduled part 135 operations until 
August 18, 2001, without a digital flight data recorder installed in 
those aircraft.

    Docket No.: 28855.
    Petitioner: Offshore Logistics, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 135.152(a).
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit Offshore to operate certain 
multiengine turbine-powered rotorcraft with a seating configuration of 
10 to 19 seats, excluding any required crewmember seat, that was 
brought onto the U.S. register after, or was registered outside the 
United States and added to Offshore's Operations Specifications after, 
October 11, 1991, without an approved digital flight data recorder.

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Dispositions of Petitions

    Docket No.: 26939.
    Petitioner: Northern Air Cargo, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 43.3(f), 43.7(e), and 121.379.
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To Permit NAC to perform 
maintenance, preventive maintenance, major repairs, and alterations 
under the authority of its part 121 air carrier certificate on a 
Douglas DC-6B aircraft (Registration No. N7919C, Serial No. 43554) that 
has been dry leased to and is operated by Aero Petroleum Corporation, a 
14 CFR part 91 operator. Grant, September 15, 1997, Exemption No. 6678.

    Docket No.: 28962.
    Petitioner: Bombardier Services Corporation West Virginia Air 
Center.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 145.45(f).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Bombardier to 
assign copies of its Inspection Procedures Manual (IPM) to key 
individuals within its departments and functionally place an adequate 
number of IPMs for all employees to access, rather than provide a copy 
of the IPM for each of its supervisory and inspection personnel. Grant, 
September 17, 1997, Exemption No. 6677.

    Docket No.: 27674.
    Petitioner: IBM Corporation Flight Operations.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 43.9(a), 43.11(a)(3), 
91.407(a)(2), and 145.57(a).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit IBM Flight 
Operations to use computerized personal identification codes in lieu of 
the physical signatures required to issue an airworthiness release and/
or approval for return to service for the aircraft operated by IBM 
Flight Operations and the aeronautical products that IBM Flight 
Operations maintains for its repair station customers. Grant, September 
25, 1997, Exemption No. 6176A.

    Docket No.: 28919.
    Petitioner: Baldev. S. Bambhra.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 65.93.
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Mr. Bambhra to 
renew his inspection authorization even though he did not apply to an 
FAA Flight Standards District Office for renewal before the March 31, 
1997, deadline required by CFR 14 part 65.93. Denial, September 15, 
1997, Exemption No. 6679.

    Docket No.: 28186.
    Petitioner: MTU Maintenance GMBH.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 3(a)(1).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit MTU-H to 
develop and approve major repair data; as well as to inspect, repair, 
maintain, overhaul, and return to service aircraft engines, appliances, 
parts, and components for installation on any U.S. -registered 
aircraft. These functions would be performed without geographical 
limitations and in accordance with MTU-H's ratings. Denial, September 
24, 1997, Exemption No. 6683.

    Docket No.: 27601.
    Petitioner: Cielos Del Sur S.A. D/B/A/ Astral Lineas Aereas.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 145.47(b).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Astral to 
substitute the calibration standards of the instituto Nacional de 
Tecnologia Industrial, for the calibration standards of the U.S. 
National Institute of Standards and Technology, formerly the National 
Bureau of Standards, to test its inspection and test equipment. Denial, 
October 6, 1997, Exemption No. 6690.

[FR Doc. 97-28413 Filed 10-24-97; 8:45 am]
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