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 Administration (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 certificate 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. 
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Our Decision 

The FAA has determined 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 Operations 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 hours 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 termination 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