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 Association (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. Therefore, use of this exemption is limited to the 

RAA part 121 members listed in Attachment 1. 
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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 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 

and/or 63.16 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 
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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 Service 
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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.