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### VIAFEDEX ONLY (TRACKING#7753 6404 4598) U.S. Department ofTransportation, Docket Operations West Building Ground Floor, Room w12-140 1200 NewJerseyAve., SE Washington, DC 20590 Ramsey Ammar 303-582-8229 rammar@polsinelli.com



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### Re: Amendment to Exemption No. 13421, Regulatory Docket No. FAA-2015- 3486, IssuedtoAutonomous MediaLLC, Pursuantto Section 333 ofthe FAA Modernization andReformActof 2012 Dear SirorMadam: Autonomous Media LLC ("Autonomous") was issued Exemption No. 13421 on October29, 2015 (hereinafter "the Exemption") authorizing commercial operations, with conditions and limitations, for a DJI Inspire 1, Phantom 2 Vision Plus sUAS for the pmpose of aerial data collection to include aerial photography and aerial videography. Autonomous now requests an amendment to the Exemption allowing it to operate an additional sUAS pursuant to the same conditions and limitations contained in the Exemption. In addition, Autonomous specifically incorporates into this correspondence all materials related to safe operations as expressed in Autonomous's initial submission for the Exemption and to treat all materials as iftherequested aircraft wereincluded inthe original submission. The additional aircraft for which relieffrom 14 CFR Part 21, Certificationprocedures for · Products and Parts, Subpart H- Airworthiness Certificates and additional FAR's as contained in the original Exemption will be required and which Autonomous requests be included in its exemption is: I. DJI SpreadingWings S1 000 Autonomous has revised its sUAS Operators Handbooks to include the additional aircraft requested to be added to the Exemption. A copy ofthe revised Operator's Handbooks and Flight Operations Manuals are attached. As demonstrated in the attached, The Operator's Handbook

polsinelli.com Atlanta St. Louis Chicago Dallas Washington, DC Polsinelli PC, Polsinelli LLP in California Denver Wilmington kansas City Los Angeles Nashville NewYork Phoenix San FranciscoUS Department ofTransportation January 7, 2016 Page2 and Operations Manuals contain confidential commercial and/or proprietary information to Autonomous and are not generally available to the public and are protected from release under the Freedom ofInformation Act, 5 U.S.C. §552 et seq. As such, Autonomous requests that these documentsbekept confidential. This additional aircraft falls within the limitations prescribed in the Exemption for weight, size, and performance. The FAAhaspreviously granted exemptions for these aircraft: sUASs GRANTED EXEMPTIONS DJI SpreadingWings S1 000 11156,11467, 11694,11992

Autonomous respectfully submits that this amendment qualifies for summary grant approval. The FAA has previously granted exemptions for the operation of the additional aircraft requested in this amendment. Similarly, as the proposed operations ofthese additional aircraft will be in full conformance with the other conditions and limitations ofthe Exemption, there is no need for the FAA to repeat the analysis performed for the original exemption on which this amendment is based. For the same reasons, good cause exists to preclude the requirement to publish the requested amendment inthe Federal Register. Please feel free to contact me ifthere are any questions or any information needed to process this amendment to include this additional aircraft on Exemption 13421. Sincerely,

Ramsey Ammar

Ends: Flight Operations Manual (CONFIDENTIAL- NOT FORPUBLIC RELEASE) sUAS Operator'sHandbook (CONFIDENTIAL- NOT FORPUBLIC RELEASE) Exhibit A S1000 User Manual Exhibit B 14sg-Manual Exhibit C FutabaR6208sb Manual Exhibit D Ground Station User ManualUS Department ofTransportation January 7, 2016 Page 3 ExhibitE BTU Manual Exhibit E BTU ReleaseNote Exhibit F TigerMotorMT2814 Exhibit G Checklist