AFS-12-148-E February 23, 2012

Exemption No. 10328A Regulatory Docket No. FAA-2011-0182

Mr. Michael Daigneault Director, Flight Standards CitationShares Management, LLC

5 American Lane Greenwich, CT 06831

Dear Mr. Daigneault:

This letter is to inform you that we have amended your Exemption No. 10328. It explains the

basis for our decision and describes its effect.

The Basis for Our Decision

The Federal Aviation Adm inistration (FAA) is amending Exemption No. 10328, for CitationShares Management, LLC (CitationShare s). That exemption from § 43.3(g) of Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) allows CitationShares’ properly trained pilots (under an approved training program) to accomplish updates of navigational software databases of installed flight management systems.

The FAA determined that additional relief is required from §§ 91.1443(b)(3) and 135.443(b)(3) in Exemption No. 10328 only as it applies to the log book entry.

We are amending the current grant of exemption from § 43.3(g) to provide relief from the requirement that the maintenance log be signed by a certificated mechanic or repairman as required by §§ 91.1443(b)(3) and 135.443(b)(3) only as it applies to the logbook entry. This relief is addressed in item No. 5 of the conditions and limitations of Exemption No. 10328. Loading of navigational databases is identified as a preventive maintenance task in Appendix A to part 43. This necessitates an exemption from §§ 91.1443(b)(3) and2

135.443(b)(3) to permit those same pilots to make the logbook entry required by item No. 5 in the conditions and limitations of Exemption No. 10328.

Our Decision

The FAA has determ ined the justification for the issuance of Exemption No. 10328, as amended, remains valid 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 have amended Exemption No. 10328.

The Effect of Our Decision

The term ination date of Exemption No. 10328, as amended, is extended to February 28, 2014, unless sooner superseded or rescinded. The conditions and limitations of Exemption No. 10328, as amended, are listed below.

Conditions and Limitations

1. Pilots will be trained on all specif ic makes and models of the flight management computer (FMC) to which they will be uploading navigational software databases. Training on one make and model will not enable the pilot to update databases in

other makes and models.

2. Upon successful completion of training, each pilot will be authorized, in writing, by the director of maintenance or authorized designee, to perform navigational software database uploads on systems for which they have received training.

3. The software being uploaded cannot cont ain system operating software. The upload must include the navigational database only. The director of maintenance is responsible for ensuring the software being uploaded does not contain operating system software.

4. CitationShares must have written procedures available to the pilot to perform the task and to evaluate the accomplishment of the task, including those tasks that require a decision concerning the airworthiness of the aircraft.

5. Each completed task must include the maintenance log entries, including the name of the person performing the upload, the date of the upload, the database revision number uploaded, and the aircraft location at the time of upload.3

6. This grant of exemption from § 43.3(g) includes only the uploading of navigational software databases as listed in Appendix A to part 43, paragraph (c)32, and does not extend to other preventive maintenance tasks identified in Appendix A to part

43.

This letter must be attached to, and is a part of, Exemption No. 10328.

Sincerely,

/s/

John W. McGraw Acting Director, Flight Standards

Service

Enclosure