AFS-16-10557-E 

May 24, 2016 

 Exemption No. 10526B 

 Regulatory Docket No. FAA-2012-0434 

Mr. Noel McDermott 

Director of Operations 

SeaPort Airlines, Inc. 

7505 NE Airport Way 

Portland, OR 97218 

Dear Mr. McDermott: 

This letter is to inform you that we have granted your petition to extend Exemption No. 

10526, as amended. It transmits our decision, explains its basis, and gives you the conditions 

and limitations of the exemption, including the date it ends. 

The Basis for Our Decision 

By request posted to the Docket on April 12, 2016, you petitioned the Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA) on behalf of SeaPort Airlines, Inc. (SeaPort) for an extension of 

Exemption No. 10526, as amended. That exemption from § 61.3(a) and (c) of Title 14, Code 

of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) allows SeaPort to issue company-provided facsimiles of 

pilot and medical certificates to its pilot crewmembers when those certificates are lost, 

destroyed, or misplaced. 

In your petition, you do not indicate any changes to 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 SeaPort. 
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Our Decision 

The FAA has determined that the justification for the issuance of Exemption No. 10526, 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. §§ 106(f), 40113 and 44701, which the 

FAA Administrator has delegated to me, I grant SeaPort Airlines, Inc. (SeaPort) an exemption 

from 14 CFR § 61.3(a) and (c) to issue company-provided facsimiles of pilot and medical 

certificates to its pilot crewmembers when those certificates are lost, destroyed, or misplaced, 

subject to the conditions and limitations listed below. 

Conditions and Limitations 

1. This exemption is issued for the purpose of preventing cancellation of a scheduled 

air carrier’s flights in situations where a flight crewmember’s FAA airman 

certificate, FAA medical certificate, and/or photo identification are valid but 

physically unavailable. The privileges of this exemption are intended for 

situations where crewmembers have no access to Airman Services at the 

www.faa.gov website for receiving via FAX or internet download FAA-issued 

documents containing temporary authority to exercise certificate privileges. 

2. This exemption allows SeaPort to develop and issue to a crewmember a document 

confirming the crewmember’s FAA-issued airmen and medical certification. The 

document issued by SeaPort must be in the crewmember’s physical possession 

when exercising the privileges of the exemption and must contain the following 

information— 

a. The crewmember’s certification information from the crewmember’s airman 

and medical certificates. 

b. The exact text or a photocopy of this exemption. 

c. The SeaPort confirmation document, including the following statements: 

i. “Issued under the authority of Exemption No. 10526, as amended.” 

ii. “Expires (insert date/time 72 hours after issuance).” 

iii. “The privileges of this exemption may only be exercised within the 

District of Columbia and the 48 contiguous United States.” 

iv. The privileges of this exemption may only be exercised for scheduled 

air carrier flights. The privileges of this exemption may not be 

exercised for operations under part 91, part 91 Subpart K, or for 

unscheduled flights operated under part 135. 

3. Before conducting part 135 operations under this exemption, SeaPort must receive 

approval from its FAA principal operations inspector (POI) for the procedures 

SeaPort expects to employ when issuing a confirmation document to 

crewmembers who do not have in their personal possession the airmen and/or 
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medical certificate, or photo identification. These procedures must include a 

method to ensure positive identification of the crewmember when the crewmember 

no longer has photo identification. 

4. Each flight crewmember who operates a flight under this exemption must— 

a. As soon as practicable, obtain from Airman Services at the faa.gov website a 

document containing temporary authority to exercise certificate privileges. 

b. If the flight crewmember’s FAA airman and medical certificate are 

permanently lost or destroyed, comply with §§ 61.29(a) and/or 61.29(b) and 

assure that a request for a replacement certificate from the FAA is made within 

72 hours of the initiation of any flight conducted under this exemption. 

SeaPort is authorized to make the application to the FAA on behalf of each 

applicable flight crewmember. 

c. The flight crewmember must provide a copy of the FAA-issued documents 

containing temporary authority to exercise certificate privileges to SeaPort 

within 24 hours of the receipt of that document. 

The Effect of Our Decision 

Our decision extends the termination of Exemption No. 10526, as amended, to May 31, 2018 

unless sooner superseded or rescinded. 

Sincerely, 

/s/ 

John S. Duncan 

Director, Flight Standards Service