AFS-17-00013-E January 12, 2017

Exemption No. 11152A Regulatory Docket No. FAA-2014-0818

Ms. Stacey Bechdolt Vice President, Safety & Operations Regulatory Counsel 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 petition to extend Exemption No. 11152. It explains the basis for our decision, describes its effect, and lists the conditions

and limitations.

The Basis for Our Decision

By letter dated September 19, 2016, you petitioned the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on behalf of Regional Airline Associa tion (RAA) for an extension of Exemption No. 11152. That exemption from §§ 61.3(a), 61.3(c), and 121.383 of Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) allows RAA to allow air carriers to issue written confirmation of an FAA-issued crewmember certificate, on a temporary basis, to a flight crewmember employed by that air carrier based on information in the air carrier’s approved record system.

In your petition, you indicate that there has been no change in the conditions and reasons relative to public interest and safety that were the basis for granting the original exemption.

In previous grants of exemption, the FAA granted relief to the petitioner’s member airlines, as well as to “other qualifying part 119 certificate holders.” However, in an effort to manage exemptions granted by the FAA and to facilitate operator compliance with the conditions and limitations of a grant of exemption, the FAA is no longer including “other qualifying part 119 certificate holders” in grants of exemption. Theref ore, use of this exemption is limited to the RAA part 121 members listed in Attachment 1.2

In its September 19, 2016 petition, RAA provided a list of member carriers to which relief would apply. The FAA clarified information concerning certain member carriers with the petitioner and updated the list of carriers included in the exemption as follows. First, the petitioner confirmed that Jazz Aviation refers to a part 129 member carrier. In this case, the FAA finds that the exemption does not apply and has not included Jazz Aviation in the list of part 121 air carriers covered. Second, the FAA clarified with the petitioner that Empire Airlines, Inc.; Great Lakes Aviation Ltd.; and Hyannis Air Services, Inc. operate under part 135 and part 121. Therefore, the FAA has included these certificate holders in this exemption applicable to RAA’s part 121 member carriers. Lastly, the petitioner confirmed that RAVN Alaska refers to the Corvus Airlines. Inc. certificate. Because Corvus Airlines operates under part 121, the FAA has included it in this exemption applicable to RAA’s part 121 member

carriers.

The FAA has determined that good cause exists for not publishing a summary of the petition in the Federal Register because the requested extension of the exemption would not set a precedent, and any delay in acting on this petition would be detrimental to RAA.

Our Decision

The FAA has determined that the justification for the issuance of Exemption No. 11152 remains valid with respect to this exemption and is in the public interest. Therefore, under the authority provided by 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 40113 and 44701, which the FAA Administrator has delegated to me, Regional Airline Association is granted an exemption which allows RAA to allow air carriers to issue written confirmation of an FAA-issued crewmember certificate, on a temporary basis, to a flight crewmember employed by that air carrier based on information in the air carrier’s approved record system, subject to the following conditions and

limitations.

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 Opera tions 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 and/or 63.16 and assure that a request for an official communication from the FAA confirming the applicable certificate is ma de within 72 hours of the initiation of any flight conducted under this exemption. The air carrier is authorized to make this3

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. ‘11152’, as amended.”

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, 2019, unless sooner superseded or rescinded.

Sincerely,

/s/ John Barbagallo Deputy Director, Flight Standards Service4

Attachment 1

The relief provided by Exemption No. 11152 is limited to the certificate holders listed below. 1

Regional Airline Association Part 121 Members

Air Wisconsin Airlines Corporation Champlain Enterprises, LLC (DBA CommutAir) Compass Airlines, LLC Corvus Airlines, Inc. (DBA RAVN Alaska) Empire Airlines, Inc. Endeavor Air, Inc. Envoy Air, Inc. ExpressJet Airlines, Inc. GoJet Airlines, LLC Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. Hawaii Island Air, Inc. Horizon Air Industries, Inc. Hyannis Air Service, Inc. (DBA Cape Air) Mesa Airlines, Inc. Piedmont Airlines, Inc. PSA Airlines, Inc. Republic Airlines, Inc. Seaborne Virgin Islands, Inc. (DBA Seaborne Airlines) Shuttle America Corporation SkyWest Airlines, Inc. Trans States Airlines, LLC

1 Attachment updated October 31, 2016.