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Who is the ultimate customer of the airport? - ✔✔pilot
What did the "Air Mail Act of 1925" do? - ✔✔-AKA: The Kelly Act
-U.S. Gov. could contract mail to private companies.
-Beginning of Commercial Air Service
-Started the thought that only those that use aviation should pay for it.
What did the Air Commerce Act of 1926 do? - ✔✔-Created a new Aeronautics branch
within the department of commerce.
What was the original Aeronautics branch charged with? - ✔✔-Fostering Air Commerce
-Issuing and enforcing of Air Traffic Rules
-Licensing Pilots
-Certifying Aircraft
-Establishing Airways
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,-Operating and maintaining NAVAIDS
What happened when the Aeronautics branch split? - ✔✔-Civil Aeronautics
Administration (CAA) retains ATC, pilot/aircraft certification, safety enforcement, and
airway development.
-Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) makes safety rules, conducts crash investigations,
economic regulation of airlines.
What would eventually lead to the hub and spoke system? - ✔✔Airline Deregulation
What is Part 119? - ✔✔Basic requirements for flying for hire.
What is Part 121? - ✔✔Scheduled Air Carrier Certification
What is Part 135? - ✔✔Communter or On Demand Air Charter/Taxi rules
What is Part 125? - ✔✔Certification and operation of airplanes with a seating capactity
of 20 or more or a max payload of 6,000 pounds. (Ex. Corporate husttle flying workers
to a rig site.
What is Part 380? - ✔✔Rules on public charters. Performed by one or more direct air
carriers and sponsored by a charter operator. (Ex. Apple Vacations leasing an airline
aircraft)
Works Progress Administration (WPA) - ✔✔Provided 50% of funding needed for
airport projects.
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, Built over 800 airports.
World War II - ✔✔Development of Landing Areas for National Defense (DLAND)
Over 900 airports built
500 were declared surplus after the war.
What was the stipulation when airports were handed over to city/county use? -
✔✔They would be open and available for public use.
What did the Federal Aid to Airports Act of 1946 do? - ✔✔-Creates the Federal Aid to
Airports Program (FAAP)
-Provides 50% of funding but the airport must be in the National Airport Plan (NAP)
What does the NAP eventually become? - ✔✔The National Plan of Integrated Airport
Systems (NPIAS)
What did the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 create? - ✔✔The Federal Aviation Agency
(FAA)
Eventually become the FAA we know today.
What is a Grant/Sponsor Assurance? - ✔✔Essentially a contract between the airport
and the government. Promises the must be kept as a condition of received AIP funding.
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