AAAE C.M. Exam 2024 with Guaranteed Accurate Answers

Airport Sponsor - correct answer 1. Governing body of the airport 2. any public agency or private owner of a public use airport 3. often operated by a board or elected or appointed officials 4. act as policy makers establishing broad goals and objectives 5. strategic leaders of the airport Airport Executive - correct answer An individual (airport director or manager) Airport Operator - correct answer Airport management structure overall (Sponsor, Executive & personnel essential to the operation) Airports Customers-Pilots - correct answer Airport must first serve and understand the pilot Airport Executive Skills - correct answer Strategy, marketing, finance, accounting, operations management, organizational behavior and human resources Air Mail Act/Kelly Act of 1925 - correct answer 1. authorized postmaster general to contract airmail to private companies that were commercial air carriers 2. only those who use aviation pay for it. Fixed Base Operator (FBO) - correct answer Get fuel, conduct flight planning and take care of pilots needs Air Commerce Act of 1926 - correct answer 1. legislation creating of regulation of civil aviation establishing safety standards 2. created the Aeronautics Branch 3. prohibited use of federal funds to build or improve airports Aeronautics Branch (renamed Bureau of Air Commerce) - correct answer Under Department of Commerce 1. fostering commerce (important) 2. issuing and enforcing air traffic rules. sing pilots 4. certifying aircraft 5. establishing airways ting and maintaining nav aids -Now all responsibility of FAA AAAE - correct answer First airport management trade organization, 1928 Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) - correct answer Aeronautics Branch became the CAA-1930's Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB)-1940 - correct answer CAA responsible for ATC, pilot and aircraft certifications, safety enforcement and airway development CAB make safety rules, accident investigation, economic regulation of airlines CAB dissolved by Airline Deregulation Act-1978 Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 - correct answer Airlines were able to raise or lower airfares and add or remove routes allowed hub and spoke Air Cargo Deregulation Act of 1976 - correct answer allowed hub and spoke system for cargo. cargo delivered to central hub to be sorted and delivered by spokes instead of point to point delivery Works Progress Administration (WPA)-New Deal - correct answer Funded 50% of new and expanded 852 airports by 1939. Airports funded the rest (cost share). Today 75%-90% is covered by Fed dollars for eligible projects Development of Landing Areas for National Defense (DLAND) WWII - correct answer Secretary of War and Commerce and Sect. of Navy built 986 airports for the war effort-500 were surplused and given to cities and counties for civil use Federal Aid to Airports Program (FAAP) - Act 1946 - correct answer provided grant funds for certain airport projects (ie. runways and taxiways). To be eligible airport had to be in the National Airport Plan (NAP) National Airport Plan (NAP) - correct answer listed recommendations for construction, maintenance and operation. Provided 50% of funding, airport other 1/2. Sponsor (Grant) Assurances - correct answer public use airports cannot deny civil aeronautical operations. Promise made in order to receive grants Federal Aviation Act of 1958 - correct answer Repealed CAA and created the Federal Aviation Agency. FAA and directed FAA to take safety rule making from CAB