AFS-10-346-E Aug 16 2010

Exemption No. 5560H Regulatory Docket No. FAA-2000-8180

Mr. David Lotterer

Vice President-Technical Services Regional Airline Association 2025 M Street, NW. Washington, DC 20036

Dear Mr. Lotterer:

This letter is to inform you that we have granted your petition to extend Exemption No. 5560, as amended. It explains the basis for our decision, describes its effect, and lists the

conditions and limitations.

The Basis for Our Decision

By letter dated July 28, 2010, you petitioned the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on behalf of Regional Airline Association (RAA) for an extension of Exemption No. 5560, as amended. That exemption from § 61.3(a) and (c) of Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations permits RAA member carriers to establish special procedures that enable an operator to issue to its flight crewmembers, on a temporary basis, confirmation of any required crewmember certificate based on information contained in the operator’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 RAA.2

Our Decision

The FAA has determined that the justification for the issuance of Exemption No. 5560, 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, subject to the following conditions

and limitations.

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 airman or medical certificate required under the Federal Aviation Regulations for a particular flight.

2. If the individual no longer has any identification, the carrier’s procedures, specified in Condition No. 1, must include a method to ensure 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 ensure that a request for a facsimile 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

facsimile to the air carrier within 24 hours of the receipt of that facsimile.

4. The carrier’s confirmation must include the written words “Issued under the authority of Exemption No. 5560, 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.3

The Effect of Our Decision

Our decision extends the termination date of Exemption No. 5560, as amended, to November 30, 2012, unless sooner superseded or rescinded.

All conditions and limitations of Exemption No. 5560, as amended, remain the same. This letter must be attached to, and is a part of, Exemption No. 5560.

Sincerely,

/s/

John W. McGraw