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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

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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
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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

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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 Updated

Exhibit 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 similarly
Motion of Rhoades Aviation, Inc. d/b/a Transair

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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,

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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
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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

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Jonathan Echmalian