\\DC - 038245/000001 - 3591762 v1 BEFORE THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

WASHINGTON, D.C.
Application of RHOADES AVIATION, INC. d/b/a TRANSAIR for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to engage in interstate charter air transportation of persons, property and mail under 49 U.S.C. § 41102 ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )Docket DOT-OST-2011-0216

MOTION OF RHOADES AVIATION, INC. D/B/A TRANSAIR FOR CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT PURSUANT TO RULE 12
Communications with respect to this document should be addressed to: Teimour Riahi Chief Executive Officer RHOADES AVIATION, INC. d/b/a TRANSAIR 100 Iolana Place Honolulu, HI 96819 +1 808 833 5557 (telephone) +1 808 833 5288 (facsimile) teimour@transairhawaii.com Robert E. Cohn Patrick R. Rizzi HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP Columbia Square 555 Thirteenth Street, NW Washington, DC 20004 +1 202 637 4999 (direct dial) +1 202 637 5910 (facsimile) robert.cohn@hoganlovells.com Counsel for RHOADES AVIATION, INC. d/b/a TRANSAIR October 19, 2012\\DC - 038245/000001 - 3591762 v1 BEFORE THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

WASHINGTON, D.C.
Application of RHOADES AVIATION, INC. d/b/a TRANSAIR for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to engage in interstate charter air transportation of persons, property and mail under 49 U.S.C. § 41102 ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )Docket DOT-OST-2011-0216

October 19, 2012

MOTION OF RHOADES AVIATION, INC. D/B/A TRANSAIR FOR CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT PURSUANT TO RULE 12 Rhoades Aviation, Inc. d/b/a Transair (“Rhoades” or the “Applicant”) hereby files this Motion pursuant to 14 C.F.R. § 302.12 to withhold from public disclosure UpdatedExhibit RDS-3, Page 1, submitted with its update dated October 19, 2012 in the abovecaptioned proceeding. Confidential copies of the exhibit page are being submitted contemporaneously herewith in a sealed envelope marked “Confidential Treatment Requested Under § 302.12.” Rhoades requests confidential treatment of the FAA Certificate Numbers of Key Personnel listed on Updated Exhibit RDS-3, Page 1. The Department routinely protects such information from public disclosure and has already done so with respect to the previous version of this exhibit page. See Letter from Lauralyn J. Remo, Chief, Air Carrier Fitness Division, to Robert E. Cohn, Counsel for Rhoades, dated August 23, 2012 (Docket DOT-OST-2011-0216). See also Letter from William M. Bertram, Chief, Air Carrier Fitness Division, to Edward P. Faberman, Counsel for Compass Airlines, Inc., dated September 1, 2006 (Docket DOT-OST-2006-24295). The Department should similarlyMotion of Rhoades Aviation, Inc. d/b/a Transair Page 2

\\DC - 038245/000001 - 3591762 v1 grant confidential treatment to the updated exhibit page, which contains a new FAA Certificate Number. WHEREFORE, the Applicant hereby requests that the Department afford confidential treatment pursuant to Rule 12 of its Rules of Practice to the sensitive information described herein.

Respectfully submitted,

__________________________________ Robert E. Cohn HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP Columbia Square 555 Thirteenth Street, NW Washington, DC 20004 Counsel for RHOADES AVIATION, INC. d/b/a TRANSAIR\\DC - 038245/000001 - 3591762 v1 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I hereby certify that a copy of the foregoing Motion of Rhoades Aviation, Inc. d/b/a Transair for Confidential Treatment Under Rule 12 has been served this 19th day of October, 2012, upon the following person:

Mary Ballard Principal Operations Inspector Indianapolis Flight Standards District Office, FSDO-11 1201 Columbia Road, Suite 101 Plainfield, IN 46168

_____________________________ Jonathan Echmalian