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U.S. Department of Transportation 

Docket Operations, M-30 

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Room W12-140 

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Washington, DC 20590 

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Maverick Airstar LLC requests that you extend our current exemption: No:10645, 

Regulatory Docket No. FAA-2011-1050 from 14 CFR 93.323. 

Maverick Airstar LLC continues to operate under the guidelines from our original 

request, dated; September 21, 2011. 

Thank you for your consideration of this request. If you have any additional questions, 

please contact me by phone: 626-252-5647 or email: barrnenta@flymaverick.com 

Sincerely, 

Brent 

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Director of Operations 

Maverick Airstar, LLC 

P.O. Box 3297 

Grand Canyon , AZ 86023 

Enclosures: 

Initial request letter Dated: 9-21-11 

Exemption Letter No: 10645 

GRAND CANYON AIRPORT I 1-liGI-lWAY 64 I GRAND CANYON, AZ 86023 I 928.638.2622 
September 21, 2011 

Mr. Martin F. Kay 

Principle Operations Inspector 

LAS FSDO 

7181 Amigo St., Ste. 180 

Las Vegas, NV 89119 

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Maverick Airstar, LLC requests an exemption from Title 14 CFR Part 93.323 which requires the filing of a 

flight plan prior to conducting operations in the vicinity of the Grand Canyon National Park (GCNP) and 

an exemption from the "LAS FSDO Grand Canyon National Park Special Flight Rules Area Procedures 

Manual" chapter 1, section 1.13 page 1-16 which requires a VFR flight plan be filed with an FAA Flight 

Service Station prior to conducting a commercial SFRA operation. Maverick Airstar requests that the 

exemptions be granted until the referenced documents are revised or rescinded. Maverick Airstar will 

continue to comply with all other requirement of the referenced documents including the quarterly 

reporting requirement. 

The reasons Maverick Airstar is seeking the exemptions are as follows: 

1. The filing of flight plans prior to operation within the GCNP SFRA is required for allocation use 

auditing and not for safety of flight or flight locating reasons. 

2. Flight locating and flight following is done within the company as per section 4-2 of our General 

Operations Manual and is in compliance with FAR Part 135 requirements. 

3. Our demonstrated method of quarterly allocation use reporting, verification and audit options 

provides for adequate oversight by the responsible agency. 

4. The filing of pre-flight flight plans each hour is a duplication of the information contained in the 

quarterly GCNP operations reports and is much less accurate as the planned flights often change 

after the filing of the report. 

5. By not faxing or emailing the hourly flight plans to a FSS, it would lessen the burden on FSS 

personnel and allow them to be more effective at their primary tasks of flight following and 

disseminating weather information. 

Thank you for your consideration of this request and if you have any additional questions, please 

contact me by phone: 928-638-2622 or email: shall@flymaverick.com . 

Sincerely, 

Stephen 

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Maverick Airstar, lLC 

PO Box3297 

Grand Canyon, AZ 86023 

GRAND CANYON AIRPORT I 1-liGI-lWAY 64 I GRAND CANYON, AZ 86023 I 928.638.2622 
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U.S. Department 

of Transportation 

Federal Aviation 

Administration 

October 11, 2012 

Mr. Stephen Hall 

Director of Operations 

Maverick Airstar, LLC 

P.O. Box 3297 

Grand Canyon, AZ 

Dear Mr. Hall: 

Exemption No. 10645 

800 Independence Ave .. SW. 

Washington. D.C. 20591 

Regulatory Docket No. FAA-2011-1050 

This letter is to inform you that we have granted your request for exemption. It transmits our 

decision, explains its basis, and gives you the conditions and limitations of the exemption, 

including the date it ends. 

The Basis for Our Decision 

By letter dated September 21, 2011, you petitioned the Federal Aviation Administration 

(FAA) on behalf of Maverick Airstar, LLC (Maverick Airstar) for an exemption from 

§ 93.323 of Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR). That exemption, if granted, 

would relieve Maverick Airstar from the requirement to file a flight plan prior to conducting 

operations in the Grand Canyon National Park (GCNP) Special Flight Rules Area. 

The FAA has determined that good cause exists for not publishing a summary of the petition 

in the Federal Register because the requested exemption would not set a precedent, and any 

delay in acting on this petition would be detrimental to Maverick Airstar. 

The FAA has issued a grants of exemption in circumstances similar in all material respects to 

those presented in your petition. In Grant ofExemption No. 10615 (copy enclosed), the FAA 

found that the filing of individual flight plans by Sundance Helicopters for each of its many 

thousands of annual air tour flight operations over the Grand Canyon results in an extremely 

large workload for Sundance Helicopters and for the flight service station (FSS) that receives 

them. Continued processing of those administrative flight plans now incurs significant costs 

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to both Sundance Helicopters and to the Federal Government without benefit. In the interim, 

the FAA has implemented more effective efficient alternate methods of auditing allocation 

compliance. The FAA finds that it is in the public interest to reduce this paperwork burden to 

both Sundance Helicopters and to the FSS. 

Having reviewed your reasons for requesting an exemption, I find that-

• they are similar in all material respects to relief previously requested in the enclosed Grant 

ofExemption No. 10615; 

• the reasons stated by the FAA for granting the enclosed Grant of Exemption No. 10615 

also apply to the situation you present; and 

• a grant of exemption is in the public interest. 

Our Decision 

Under the authority contained in 49 U.S.C. 40113 and 44701, which the FAA Administrator 

has delegated to me, I hereby grant Maverick Airstar, LLC an exemption from 

14 CFR § 93.323 to the extent necessary to relieve Maverick Airstar from the requirement to 

file a flight plan prior to conducting operations in the Grand Canyon National Park Special 

Flight Rules Area. 

This exemption terminates on September 30, 2014, unless sooner superseded or rescinded. 

Sincerely, 

Is/ 

John S. Duncan 

Deputy Director, Flight Standards 

Service 

Enclosure