AFS-15-034-E

January 22, 2015

 Exemption No. 11152

 Regulatory Docket No. FAA-2014-0818

Ms. Stacey Bechdolt

Senior Director, Safety and Technical Affairs

Regional Airline Association

2025 M Street, NW., Suite 800

Washington, DC 20036

Dear Ms. Bechdolt:

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 October 6, 2014, you petitioned the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on 

behalf of Regional Airline Association (RAA) for an exemption from §§ 61.3(a), 61.3(c), and 

121.383 of Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) to the extent necessary to allow RAA

to issue written confirmation of an FAA-issued crewmember certificate to a flight crewmember 

employed by that air carrier based on information in the air carrier’s approved record system.

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 RAA.

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

presented in your petition. In Grant of Exemption No. 5487 (copy enclosed), the FAA found that 
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the proposed exemption was in the public interest and provided a level of safety equivalent to that

provided by the affected regulation, subject to certain conditions and limitations.

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 of 

Exemption No. 5487;

• the reasons stated by the FAA for granting the enclosed Grant of Exemption No. 5487 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. §§ 106(f), 40113 and 44701, which the FAA 

Administrator has delegated to me, I hereby grant Regional Airlines Association an exemption from 

14 CFR §§ 61.3(a), 61.3(c), and 121.383 to the extent necessary to allow RAA to issue written 

confirmation of an FAA-issued crewmember certificate to a flight crewmember employed by that air 

carrier based on information in the air carrier’s approved record system, subject to the conditions 

and limitations described below.

Conditions and Limitations 

1. Prior to utilizing any provision of this plan each air carrier must develop, submit to, and have 

approved by the FAA Principal Operations Inspector assigned to that carrier a plan outlining 

the procedures it expects to employ in issuing a temporary confirmation document to 

crewmembers who do not have in their personal possession the airmen or medical certificate 

required under §§ 61.3 and/or 63.3 for a particular flight.

2. If the individual no longer has any identification, the carrier’s procedures, specified in 

Condition No. 1, must include a method to assure positive identification of the individual.

3. Each airman who operates a flight under this exemption must comply with §§ 61.29(c) 

and/or 63.16(d) and assure that a request for an official communication from the FAA 

confirming the applicable certificate is made within 72 hours of the initiation of any flight 

conducted under this exemption. The air carrier is authorized to make this application to the 

FAA on behalf of each applicable airman. The airman must provide a copy of the official 

communication to the air carrier within 24 hours of the receipt of that official communication.

4. The carrier’s confirmation must include the written words “Issued under the authority of 

Exemption No. ‘XXXX’, as amended.”
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5. The privileges of this exemption may only be exercised when the affected airman operates 

totally within the District of Columbia and the 48 contiguous states of the United States.

This exemption terminates on January 31, 2017, unless sooner superseded or rescinded.

Sincerely,

/s/

John Barbagallo

Acting Deputy Director, Flight Standards Service

Enclosure