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OHTATiO)! Transport Airplane Directorate 1601 Lind Avenue, S.W. 

Renton, Washington 98057.3356 

June 16,2010 

Mr. Jordan B. Zundell 

Lead Project Administrator 

Production and Retrofit Projects 

UC 67-LR 

The Boeing Company 

P. O. Box 3707 

Seattle, WA 98124-2207 

Dear Mr. Zundell: 

We have received your June 7, 2010, petition for exemption from Title 14 Code of l-ederal 

Regulations (14 CFR) 25.853(d) Amendment 25-84, certain special conditions, and the 

guidance in Advisory Circular (AC) 25-17A, paragraph 81b(5), for Ensolite padding on 

business class side-facing seats with inflatable lap belts installed on Air New Zealand 

Boeing Model 777 series airplanes. 

The request, which you submitted to the Department of Transportation's Federal Document 

Management System (Docket No. FAA 2010-0597), will be processed by this office when 

you provide all necessary information. Please refer to 14 CFR 11.81 for instructions about 

what information you must include in your petitions for exemption for us to process your 

request. Take particular note of items listed below, as these items were missing from your 

original request. 

• The extent of relief you seek and the reasons for seeking the relief 

• The reasons why granting your request would be in the public interest; that 

is, how it would benefit the public as a whole. 

• The reason why granting the exemption would not adversely affect safety, or 

how the exemption would provide a level of safety at least equal to that 

provided by the rule from which you seek exemption. 

• A summary we can publish in the Federal Register stating: The rule from 

which you seek the exemption and a brief description of the nature of the 

exemption you seek. 

You may also want to include the following; 
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• Any additional information, views, or arguments to support your request, 

and 

• If you want to exercise the privileges of your exemption outside the 

United States, the reason you need to do so. 

Some of this information can be retrieved from the document you sent us marked 

"proprietary." It is necessary to have all the requirements outlined in § 11.81 as part of the 

official docket. 

Section 11.85 requires us to publish a summary of your petitions for exemption in the 

Federal Register for public comment. Section 11.87 allows you to present reasons, or the 

FAA to find good cause, why we should not delay action on your petitions by the public 

comment process. 

Also note that § 11.63 requires you to send petitions for exemption at least 120 days before 

you need the exemption to take effect. 

Please provide the requested information within 30 days of the date of this letter, by 

submitting it to the established docket, Docket No. FAA-2010-0597. If that information is 

not submitted in that timeframe, we will stop work on the project with no further 

correspondence to you. Please note that our work will only resume when we receive your 

additional information, addressed to that established docket. 

Should you have any questions or concerns regarding your petition or the petition process, 

please contact John Shelden, (425) 227-2785, or emailjohn.shelden@faa.gov. 

Sincerely, 

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Franklin Tiangsing / 

Manager, Airframe and Cabin Safety Branch, ANM-115 

Transport Standards Staff 

Transport Airplane Directorate 

Aircraft Certification Service 

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