Airside Essentials
This part applies to airports serving scheduled operations with aircraft configured for more than this number of passenger seats.
What is 9?
According to §139.321, airports must ensure that fueling personnel receive recurrent fire safety training at this maximum interval.
What is every 24 consecutive calendar months?
Each certificate holder must provide a complete and current copy of the Airport Certification Manual, including amendments approved under § 139.205, to this FAA official.
Who is the Regional Airports Division Manager?
Certificate holders classified as large, medium, or small hubs must develop and implement an Airport Safety Management System according to this FAA passenger data source.
What is the Air Carrier Activity Information System?
When an air traffic control tower is not operating, §139.329(d) requires procedures for controlling pedestrians and vehicles in movement areas to use either two-way radio communications or this alternative method.
What are prearranged signs or signals?
Airports serving unscheduled passenger-carrying operations must comply with Part 139 if the aircraft has at least this many passenger seats.
What is 31?
Per §139.337, a Wildlife Hazard Assessment must be conducted by someone with this specific qualification.
What is a qualified wildlife biologist?
If the FAA finds that immediate action is required for safety in air transportation, they may issue this type of amendment to the Airport Certification Manual, effective upon notice.
What is an emergency amendment?
Under Safety Promotion requirements, safety awareness orientation materials must be reviewed and updated at least this often.
What is every 24 calendar months?
Under §139.329(f)(1), training records must include at least these two pieces of information about each individual.
What are a description and date of training completed?
Defined in Part 139, this process involves characterizing a hazard's likelihood and severity—it may be qualitative or quantitative and must be performed even if historical data is lacking.
What is risk analysis?
§139.317 defines ARFF Index C as being required when the largest air carrier aircraft operating at the airport has this range of lengths.
What is at least 126 feet but less than 159 feet?
Each Airport Certification Manual must include a plan showing the runway and taxiway identification system, including the location and inscription of signs, runway markings, and ________.
What are holding position markings?
The Safety Assurance component of the SMS requires a reporting system that guarantees this key protection for reporters.
What is confidentiality?
The procedures for pedestrian and ground vehicle operation in the movement and safety areas must be established and implemented “in a manner authorized by” this official.
Who is the Administrator?
This FAA-defined term refers to "a condition that could foreseeably cause or contribute to injury, illness, death, system damage, or an aircraft accident" and is a key component in SMS risk analysis.
What is a hazard?
Under §139.325, a partial emergency plan review involving mutual aid organizations and airport personnel must occur at this minimum interval.
What is every 12 consecutive calendar months?
To comply with §139.201(a), this physical format and formal action are required for the Airport Certification Manual to be valid.
What is printed form and signed by the certificate holder?
Under §139.403(a)(4), a certificate holder qualifying for SMS after April 24, 2023, has this amount of time to submit its Implementation Plan following notification of its status change.
What is 18 months?
Under §139.329(e), training on movement area access must be conducted at least how frequently after initial training?
What is once every 12 consecutive calendar months?
Under §139.3, the FAA Administrator's authority to issue, deny, or revoke Airport Operating Certificates is not held by field inspectors or individual FSDOs, but instead is specifically delegated to these three levels within the FAA organizational structure.
What are the Associate Administrator for Airports, the Director of Airport Safety and Standards, and the Regional Airports Division Managers?
In §139.327, self-inspections must be documented and include these five minimum items: date and time, name of inspector, conditions inspected, description of discrepancies, and this fifth element.
What is the recommended corrective action?
Airports of this class are not required to include procedures in their Airport Certification Manual for avoiding interruption or failure of utilities serving facilities or NAVAIDs during construction work.
What is Class IV?
After receiving FAA approval for its SMS Implementation Plan, within how many months must a certificate holder fully implement its Airport Safety Management System?
What is 36 months?
How long must training records be kept after an individual’s access to movement or safety areas ends?
What is 24 months?