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[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 86 (Tuesday, May 5, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24838-24839]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-11858]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration
[Summary Notice No. PE-97-7]

Petitions for Exemption; Summary of Petitions Received; 
Dispositions of Petitions Issued

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of petitions for exemption received and of dispositions 
of prior petitions.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to FAA's rulemaking provisions governing the 
application, processing, and disposition of petitions for exemption (14 
CFR part 11), this notice contains a summary of certain petitions 
seeking relief from specified requirements of the Federal Aviation 
Regulations (14 CFR Ch. I), dispositions of certain petitions 
previously received, and corrections. The purpose of this notice is to 
improve the public's awareness of, and participation in, this aspect of 
FAA's regulatory activities. Neither publication of this notice nor the 
inclusion or omission of information in the summary is intended to 
affect the legal status of any petition or its final disposition.

DATES: Comments on petitions received must identify the petition docket 
number involved and must be received on or before May 26, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Send comments on any petition in triplicate to: Federal 
Aviation Administration, Office of the Chief Counsel, Attn: Rule Docket 
(AGC-200), Petition Docket No. __________, 800 Independence Avenue, 
SW., Washington, DC. 20591
    Comments may also be sent electronically to the following internet 
address: [email protected]
    The petition, any comments received, and a copy of any final 
disposition are filed in the assigned regulatory docket and are 
available for examination in the Rules Docket (AGC-200), Room 915G, FAA 
Headquarters Building (FOB 10A), 800 Independence Avenue, SW., 
Washington, DC. 20591; telephone (202) 267-3132.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tawana Matthews (202) 267-9783 or 
Terry Stubblefield (202) 267-7624 Office of Rulemaking (ARM-1), Federal 
Aviation Administration, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 
20591.
    This notice is published pursuant to paragraphs (c), (e), and (g) 
of Sec. 11.27 of part 11 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (14 CFR 
part 11).

    Issued in Washington, DC., on April 29, 1998.
Joseph A. Conte,
Acting Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations.

Petitions for Exemption

    Docket No.: 144CE.
    Petitioner: Sino Swearingen Aircraft Company.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 23.35; 23.29; 23.235; 23.471; 
23.473; 23.477; 23.479; 23.481; 23.483; 23.485; 23.493; 23.499; 23.723; 
23.725; 23.726; 23.727; 23.959; 23.1583(c)(1), (2), Appendix C23, and 
Appendix D23.1.
    Description of Relief Sought: To permit Sino Swearigen Aircraft 
Company to modify the SJ30-2 airplane landing gear loads and associated 
airframe loads.

    Docket No.: 29175.
    Petitioner: Associated Air Center.
    Regulations Affected: Sec. 25.813(e).
    Description of Petition: To exempt Associated Air Center from the 
requirements of 14 CFR 25.813(e), to permit installation of doors 
between passenger compartments on a Boeing 737-39A Airplane intended 
for non-revenue use only.

    Docket No.: 29192.
    Petitioner: Air Transport Association.
    Regulations Affected: 119.21(a)(1).
    Description of Petition: The Air Transport Association requests an 
exemption on behalf of Hawaii Airlines, Aloha Airlines, and Aloha 
Islandair from Sec. 119.21(a)(1) of Title 14, Code of Federal 
Regulations to allow those air carriers to conduct inter-island flights 
within the State of Hawaii as flag operations, rather than conducting 
those flights as domestic operations under subpart U of part 121.

Dispositions of Petitions

    Docket No.: 28881.
    Petitioner: Douglas Aircraft Company, McDonnell Douglas 
Corporation.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 25.785(d), 25.807(c)(1), 
25.857(e), and 25.1447(c)(1).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit type 
certification of the DC-10 freighter aircraft with a Class E cargo 
compartment, with accommodation for up to four supernumeraries 
immediately aft of the cockpit, in the two configurations proposed, 
when the airplane is equipped with two floor-level emergency exits with 
escape slide/rafts within the immediate vicinity of the occupied area, 
subject to certain conditions.
    GRANT, April 21, 1998, Exemption No. 6752.

    Docket No.: 29057.
    Petitioner: McDonnell Douglas Corporation.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 25.785(d), 25.807(c)(1), 
25.857(e), and 25.1447(c)(1).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit type 
certification of the MD-11 freighter aircraft with a Class E cargo 
compartment, with accommodation for up to five supernumeraries 
immediately aft of the cockpit, in the configuration proposed, when the 
airplane is equipped with two floor-level emergency exits with escape 
slide/rafts within the immediate vicinity of the occupied area, subject 
to certain conditions..
    GRANT, April 21, 1998, Exemption No. 6753.

    Docket No.: 29129.
    Petitioner: Ilyushin Aviation Complex.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 25.1435(b)(1).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit type 
certification of the Model IL-96T by conducting a test of the complete 
hydraulic system at 2405 atm (the system relief pressure), 
all hydraulic components testing at 1.5 times the operating pressure 
(315 atm) per the current Sec. 25.1435(a)(2), and a test of the 
complete hydraulic system during flight and ground tests at operating 
pressure.
    GRANT, April 21, 1998, Exemption No. 6754.

    Docket No.: 581.
    Petitioner: Department of the Air Force.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.159(c).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the USAF to 
operate its U-2 aircraft at or above flight level 600 without 
maintaining the appropriate cruising altitudes as required under 
91.159(c).
    GRANT, April 23, 1998, Exemption No. 130D.

    Docket No.: 581.
    Petitioner: Department of the Air Force.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.159.
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the USAF to 
conduct nontraining photographic reconnaissance missions that require

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flying a series of tracks at a constant altitude, without maintaining 
the appropriate cruising altitude required under 91.159.
    GRANT, April 23, 1998, Exemption No. 134I.

    Docket No.: 28454.
    Petitioner: Civil Air Patrol.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR part 91, subpart F.
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Civil Air 
Patrol (CAP) to operate small aircraft under subpart F of part 91 and 
receive limited reimbursement for certain flights within the scope of 
and incidental to the CAP's corporate purposes and U.S. Air Force 
Auxiliary status.
    GRANT, April 13, 1998, Exemption No. 6485A.

    Docket No.: 27577.
    Petitioner: Availl.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 145.445(f).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Availl to 
maintain one copy of its repair station Inspection Procedures Manual 
(IPM) at each facility, rather than give a copy of the IPM to each of 
its supervisory and inspection personnel.
    GRANT, April 8, 1998, Exemption No. 5940B.

    Docket No.: 28479.
    Petitioner: Strong Enterprises, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 105.43(a).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Strong 
Enterprises, Inc., and Strong Certified Tandem Instructors to conduct 
parachute jumps while wearing a dual-harness, dual-parachute pact, 
having at least one main parachute and one auxiliary parachute. This 
exemption also authorizes the pilot-in-command of aircraft involved in 
these operations to allow such persons to make tandem parachute jumps.
    GRANT, April 8, 1998, Exemption No. 6474B.

    Docket No.: 29092.
    Petitioner: Pratt & Whitney Engine Services, Inc..
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 145.45(f).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the petitioner 
to assign copies of its Inspection Procedures Manual (IPM) to key 
individuals within its departments and key areas within its shop and 
functionally place an adequate number of IPM's for access to all 
employees, rather than provide a copy of the IPM for each of its 
Supervisory and inspection personnel.
    GRANT, April 13, 1998, Exemption No. 6750.

    Docket No.: 28144.
    Petitioner: Perris Valley Skydiving.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 105.43(a).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit nonstudent 
parachutist who are foreign nationals to participate in PVS-sponsored 
events without complying with the parachute equipment and packing 
requirements of the Federal Aviation Regulations.
    GRANT, March 23, 1998, Exemption No. 6745.

    GRANT, April 13, 1998, Exemption No. 64750.

    Docket No.: 29108.
    Petitioner: Skydrive Dallas, Inc.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 105.43(d).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit nonstudent 
parachutist who are foreign nationals to participate in Skydive Dallas-
sponsored events without complying with the parachute equipment and 
packing requirements of 105.43(a).
    GRANT, March 23, 1998, Exemption No. 6744.

    Docket No.: 28628.
    Petitioner: Mr. William W. Webb.
    Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 91.109(a).
    Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Mr. Webb to 
conduct certain flight instruction in Beechcraft Bonanza airplanes 
equipped with a functioning throwover control wheel instead of 
functioning dual controls.
    GRANT, April 24, 1998, Exemption No. 6544A

[FR Doc. 98-11858 Filed 5-4-98; 8:45 am]
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