May 14, 2015

U.S Department of Transportation

Docket Operations, West Building Ground Floor

Room W12-140

1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., 

Washington, DC 20590.

Through this communication Executive Flight Services, Inc. (the Company), Operating Certificate number E07A355K, represented by Mr. 

Gary Veer Director of Maintenance 1600 Airport Rd. Wichita, KS 67209 petitions for exemption from §91.230 and §47.49 of Title 14, Code of 

Federal Regulations. This petition requests relief to permit temporary operation of the Company’s U.S registered aircraft in domestic operations 

without the registration or airworthiness certificates on board.

Section §91.203 states, in pertinent part, that no person may operate a civil aircraft unless it has within it a current and valid airworthiness 

certificate; and an effective U.S. registration certificate issued to its owner, or in the United States, the second duplicate copy (pink) of the 

Aircraft Registration Application. 

Section § 47.49 states, in pertinent part, that a certificate of Aircraft Registration holder may request, and be issued, a temporary certificate if he 

has applied for a duplicate.

Executive Flight Services, Inc. currently operates a 56 corporate aircraft fleet of 11 different types under both 14 CFR part 135 and part 91 

subpart K for fractional ownership authorized by Certificate number E07A355K and Management Specifications E07K355K. 

Although the company has expended much time and effort to ensure that the required documentation is kept onboard each company aircraft, 

occasionally registration and/or airworthiness certificates disappear, are damaged, become illegible, or otherwise unusable.

Because the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Aircraft Registration Branch AFS-750 and local Flight Standards District Offices (FSDO) 

are open only Monday through Friday during business hours, and are closed during Federally recognized holidays, any missing or damaged 

certificate of registration or airworthiness would create unnecessary delays and disruption of revenue generating service.

A loss or damage to a certificate of registration or airworthiness during normal working hours on weekdays can also be disruptive to revenue 

generating service due to the requirement of the application and fee having to be submitted to the Aircraft Registration Branch prior to issuing a 

temporary registration via fax, and any damaged or missing airworthiness certificate would have to be replace prior to revenue operations.

Moreover, an exemption similar to this petition has been granted, amended, and extended, for many air carriers operating aircraft within the 48 

contiguous United States. These exemptions have established an equivalent level of safety through the process and procedures outlined in the 

exemptions. (Ref. Granted Exemption No. 8662D Regulatory Docket No. FAA-2005-22733)

Without relief, under current FARs a lost, damaged or otherwise unusable certificate of registration or airworthiness would result in undue 

financial burden (loss of revenue) to the company and our customers who depend on the company to transport them to business locations 

through the 48 contiguous United States.
Granting this exemption would be in the public interest because the number of delays and cancellations due to missing or damaged certificate 

of registration or airworthiness would be greatly reduced allow the company to better serve our customers and promote business as a result.

 

Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter, if you have any questions or comments you can reach me at phone number and 

address listed below.

Sincerely,

Gary Veer

Director of Maintenance

Executive Flight Services, Inc.

1600 Airport Road

Wichita, KS 67209

316-946-4900(W)

316-706-9988(M)