Grant's Tomb
This is the most encompassing federal grant assurance related to an airport's day-to-day operation.
Grant Assurance 19, Operation and Maintenance
Airport land use issues can typically be categorized as these two types.
On-airport or Off-airport
VMC
Visual Meteorological Conditions
This regulation pertains to Operating Requirements: Domestic, Flag, and Supplemental Operations (i.e., air carrier certification for scheduled passenger flights).
Title 14 CFR Part 121
This tenant offers a temporary rest stop for pilots and passengers, as well as providing fuel and other services.
Fixed-Base Operator (FBO)
Establishing Rules & Regulations at an airport is a key component of ensuring compliance with this this grant assurance.
Grant Assurance 19, Operation and Maintenance
Regulations, in most cases, are created through this process defined by the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946.
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)
MSL
Mean Sea Level
Commuter and on demand operations, typically referred to as 'air taxi' operate under this regulation.
13 CFR Part 135
This term typically refers to local government entities, tenants, users, passengers, and local community members.
Airport Stakeholders
Under this grant assurance, the airport must be available for public use on reasonable terms and without unjust discrimination to all types, kinds, and classes of aeronautical activities, including commercial aeronautical activities offering services at the airport.
Grant Assurance 22, Economic Nondiscrimination
Airport Management's primary duty is to operator the airport and its facilities in this manner (three words).
Safe, Secure, Efficient
VFR
Visual Flight Rules
This regulation identifies the requirements for aircraft operators engaged in commercial carriage (i.e., for hire), in passenger carrying, and cargo operations (or both).
Titel 14 CFR Part 119
Organizations that offer specialized aeronautical services such as aircraft sales, flight training, aircraft maintenance, and avionics repair are known as this.
Specialized Aviation Service Operators (SASO)
Under this grant assurance, as long as the opportunity to engage in an aeronautical activity is available to those meeting reasonable qualifications and standards relevant to such activity, the fact that only one enterprise takes advantage of the opportunity does not constitute the grant of an exclusive right.
Grant Assurance 23, Exclusive Rights
The FAA is not a permanently authorized agency of the federal government and is subject to this on a regular basis.
Reauthorization
ASOS
Airport Surface Observation Station
An aircraft operation conducted under Part 121 can only operate in airport that meet the certification classifications of this regulation.
Title 14 CFR Part 139
This biennially published plan is a five-year projection that includes eligible airport development projects that the government considers necessary to provide a safe, efficient and integrated system of public-use airports adequate to meet the needs of national defense, the U.S. Post Office, and civil aeronautics.
National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS)
This grant assurance requires medium and large hub airport operators to report to the Secretary of Transportation any denial of a request by an air carrier to access the airport.
Grant Assurance 39, Competitive Access
The FAA formally defines an airport sponsor as any public agency or private owner of a public-use airport as defined by this act.
Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982
TERPS
Terminal Instrument Procedures
This regulation addresses the operation of aircraft NOT in common carriage (meaning the flight hasn’t been advertised to the public nor tickets sold) but is configured with 20 or more seats, or more than 6,000pounds of cargo capacity.
Title 14 CFR Part 125
Primary commercial services airports have at least this many enplanement per year.
10,000