AFS-10-217-E May 25, 2010 Exemption No. 5487I Regulatory Docket No. FAA-2002-12455

Mr. Paul W. Railsback Air Transport Association of America, Inc. 1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20004-1707

Dear Mr. Railsback:

This letter is to inform you that we have granted your petition to extend Exemption No. 5487, as amended. It explains the basis for our decision and describes its effect.

The Basis for Our Decision

By letter dated March 30, 2010, you petitioned the Federal Aviation Adm inistration (FAA) on behalf of Air Transport Association of America, Inc. (ATA), for an extension of Exemption No. 5487, as amended. That exemption from §§ 61.3(a) and (c), 63.3(a), and 121.383(a)(2) of Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) allows an air carrier to issue written

confirmation of an FAA-issued crewmember cer tificate to a flight crewmember employed by that air carrier based on information in the air carrier’s approved record system.

In your petition, you indicate that there has been no change in the conditions and reasons relative to public interest and safety that were the basis for granting the original exemption.

The FAA has determined that good cause exists for not publishing a summary of the petition

in the Federal Register because the requested extension of the exemption would not set a precedent, and any delay in acting on this petition would be detrimental to ATA.2

Our Decision

The FAA has determ ined that the justification for the issuance of Exemption No. 5487, as amended, remains valid with respect to this exemption and is in the public interest. Therefore, under the authority provided by 49 U.S.C. 40113 and 44701, which the FAA Administrator has delegated to me, I grant your petition. All conditions and limitations of Exemption No. 5487, as amended, remain the same and are restated below for clarification.

Conditions and Limitations

1. Prior to utilizing any provision of this plan each air carrier must develop, submit to, and have approved by the FAA Principal Opera tions Inspector assigned to that carrier a plan outlining the procedures it expects to employ in issuing a temporary confirmation document to crewmembers who do not have in their personal possession the airmen or medical certificate required under the 14 CFR for a particular flight.

2. If the individual no longer has any identification, the carrier’s procedures, specified in condition and limitation No. 1, must include a method to assure positive identification

of the individual.

3. Each airman who operates a flight under this exemption must comply with §§ 61.29(c) and/or 63.16(d) and assure that a request for a telegram from the FAA confirming the applicable certificate is made within 72 hour s of the initiation of any flight conducted under this exemption. The air carrier is authorized to make this application to the FAA on behalf of each applicable airman. The airman must provide a copy of the telegram to the air carrier within 24 hours of the receipt of that telegram.

4. The carrier’s confirmation must include the written words “Issued under the authority of Exemption No. 5487, as amended.”

5. The privileges of this exemption may only be exercised when the affected airman operates totally within the District of Columbia and the 48 contiguous states of the

United States.

The Effect of Our Decision

Our decision extends the term ination date of Exemption No. 5487, as amended, to July 31, 2012, unless sooner superseded or rescinded. This letter must be attached to, and is a part of, Exemption No. 5487.

Sincerely,

/s/

John W. McGraw Acting Director, Flight Standards

Service