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 Air lines, 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.2

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, a nd/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/or3

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