AFS-11-083-E Dec 30 2010

Exemption No. 10187 Regulatory Docket No. FAA-2010-1245

Mr. Jake Howard Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation

500 Gulfstream Road Savannah, GA 31402

Dear Mr. Howard:

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 December 1, 2010, you petitioned the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on behalf of Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation (Gulfstream) for an exemption from § § 61.75(d)(2) and 61.117 of Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) to the extent necessary to allow foreign-licensed pilots employed by European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to obtain private pilot certificates with instrument rating privileges, without having to be administered the appropriate knowledge test . It would further allow relief from private pilot limitations while acting as second-in-command (SIC) on Gulfstream GVI aircrafts requiring more than one pilot.

Gulfstream believes that if granted, this exemption would create a means for foreign-licensed pilots to obtain approval to act as flight crew members on U.S.-registered civil aircraft owned and operated by Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation. Each pilot to which the would apply are issued pilot licenses by the airworthiness authorities of each pilot’s country that is a contracting State to the Convention on International Civil Aviation, and meet the medical standards for the issuance of that foreign pilot license.2

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 Gulfstream.

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. 10061 (copy enclosed), the FAA found that a grant of exemption would be in th e public interest and would provide a level of safety equivalent to the current regulations.

Having reviewed your reasons for requesting an exemption, I find that—

 they don’t differ materially from those presented by the petitioner in the enclosed grant of exemption;

 the reasons stated by the FAA for granting the enclosed exemption 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. 40113 and 44701, which the FAA Administrator has delegated to me, I hereby grant Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation an exemption from 14 CFR § § 61.75(d)(2) and 61.117 to the extent necessary to allow foreign-licensed pilots employed by Gulfstream to obtain private pilot certificates with instrument rating privileges, without having to be administered the appropriate knowledge test, as well as, allow relief from private pilot limitations while acting as second-in-command (SIC) on an aircraft requiring more than one pilot, subject to the conditions and limits described below.

Conditions and Limitations

1. This exemption is limited to the following persons:

Name Agency Licensing Airworthiness Authority Helge Anderassen EASA CAA Norway

Jonas Gavelin EASA CAA Sweden

2. The flight must be for aircraft flight test, Flight Standards Board or Flight Operations Evaluation Board evaluation fli ghts of Gulfstream U.S.-registered GVI

aircrafts.

3. No person or property may be on board the aircraft, other than necessary for conduct of the flight.

4. Each person listed in Condition No. 1 must make application for a private pilot certificate in accordance with § 61.75. Any person authorized to issue a § 61.75 private pilot certificate may place an instrument rating on the certificate without the knowledge test required by § 61.75(d)(2). Any person authorized to issue a3

§ 61.75 private pilot certificate must state the certificate is for SIC privileges only under the authority of § 61.75(e)(2).

This exemption terminates on January 31, 2013, unless sooner superseded or rescinded.

Sincerely,

/s/

John W. McGraw Acting Director, Flight Standards

Service

Enclosure