CM TRAINING – AAAE EXAM WITH ALL CORRECT &
100% VERIFIED ANSWERS|2025-2026 COMPLETE
EXAM|LATEST UPDATE|GRADED A+
Where does TSA have regulatory influences and authority within the terminal? ✔Correct answer-1.
Checkpoint operations
2. Airport police response to checkpoints and incidents
3. Unattended bags
4. Unattended vehicles
What did the Air Commerce Act (1926) prohibit? ✔Correct answer-Using federal funds to build or
improve airports.
Works Progress Administration (WPA) ✔Correct answer-Provided 50% of needed funding.
Built over 800 new airports.
Air Commerce Act of 1926 created what? ✔Correct answer-Aeronautics Branch (soon known as
the Civil Aeronautics Admin) under the Dept. of Commerce.
Charged with fostering air commerce, establishing air traffic control, licensing for pilots, aircraft
certification, establishing airways, and issue and enforce air traffic rules
What was the effective beginning of privatized space flight? ✔Correct answer-Final flight of the
U.S. space shuttle.
What does a GA Reliever airport do? ✔Correct answer-Relieves a Commercial airport from GA
traffic.
What is the enplanement threshold for commercial service? ✔Correct answer-2,500
Large hubs have what percentage of U.S. enplanements? ✔Correct answer-70% or more of the
enplanements
What are the cloud ceiling and visibility requirements for Visual Flight Rules? ✔Correct answer-
Cloud ceiling: 1,000'
Visibility requirements: 3 miles
"1000 and 3"
What is the entity who is responsible for airport governance? ✔Correct answer-The Airport
Sponsor.
What is the most common airport ownership type in the U.S.? ✔Correct answer-Municipalities
(cities and counties)
Who sets standards for security access control systems? ✔Correct answer-The Radio Technical
Commission on Aeronautics
How many days are required for the Notice of Proposed Rule-Making? ✔Correct answer-30 days
,What is the directive to FAA personnel on specific subjects and programs? ✔Correct answer-The
FAA Order
What is the method the FAA has found to be the best to extend federal policy to local government
units? ✔Correct answer-Grant Assurances
What is 14 CFR Part 13 Investigation and Enforcement ✔Correct answer-The informal complaint
system that is filed with the Airport District Office. FAA will investigate and offer to help resolve. If
the sponsor is in violation, the FAA provides the opportunity to comply.
A Notice of Noncompliance may be issued if the FAA believes the airport is non-compliant. The letter
will identify the apparent violation(s), specifies corrective action(s), and gives a deadline.
What is 14 CFR Part 16 Rules of Practice for Federally-Assisted Airport Enforcement Proceedings
✔Correct answer-The formal complaint system that is filed in Washington DC. It involves financial
compliance and reasonable and nondiscriminatory access, but includes all obligations in the Grant
Assurances and property deeds.
Formal agency finding regarding the compliance status of an airport.
Prior to a Part 16 complaint, a person must have initiated and engaged in good faith efforts to resolve
informally (Part 13 will work).
Deadline driven, including pleadings, investigations, and lawyers
If airport is non-compliant, FAA may withhold new grants, withhold payment on existing grants,
terminate eligibility for future grants and passenger facility charges; cease and desist orders; civil
penalties; or judicial enforcement.
What does the Tucker Act do? ✔Correct answer-Waives immunity over claims arising out of
contracts with the federal government.
What agency has the power to make safety related regulations after an aircraft accident? ✔Correct
answer-The FAA
Who produces standards and recommended practices for aviation worldwide? ✔Correct answer-
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
What professional industry trade organization represents GA pilots of small aircraft? ✔Correct
answer-Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association
What does Grant Assurance #21 (Compatible Land Use) ensure? ✔Correct answer-The sponsor
must make a reasonable attempt at compatible land use outside airport property boundaries.
Incompatible land is generally residential, schools, hospitals or public health entities, and concert
halls.
What document must always be up to date to receive FAA funds? ✔Correct answer-ALP
The ALP must delineate the airport boundaries, all facilities, and identify future development plans.
FAA approval represents concurrence in the conformity of design standards and criteria.
According to the FAA, where do most conflicts occur in permitted activities (aero or non-aero)?
✔Correct answer-Non-aeronautical
What are airport tenants and users required to adhere to? ✔Correct answer-Rules and Regulations
,What is the benefit of grant assurances to the airport user? ✔Correct answer-Ensures adequate
level of safe and effective service
What are examples of non-aeronautical revenue sources? ✔Correct answer-Concessions, parking
lot charges, rental cars, advertising space, industrial park
Is a payment to a municipality in excess of the cost acceptable? (eg for police or fire service)
✔Correct answer-No. This is an example of a revenue diversion.
What is the most common aeronautical charge at a commercial service airport? ✔Correct answer-
Landing fees.
Based on per operation and per weight basis; relatively small portion of an airline operating costs,
yet highly contentious during negotiations.
What is the FAA's position on the airport fee and rental structure for aeronautical services?
✔Correct answer-Rates and fees must be as self-sustaining as possible.
What is the FAA's position on the airport fee and rental structure of non-aeronautical services?
✔Correct answer-Rates and fees should be Fair Market Value.
What type of agreement between the airlines and the airport puts the airlines at the most risk?
✔Correct answer-Residual
What was the Air Mail Act of 1925, also known as the Kelly Act, and what did it do? ✔Correct
answer-Authorized the Postmaster General to contract for domestic airmail service with commercial
air carriers
Only those who use aviation would pay for it
Who began the first U.S. air freight service (between Detroit and Chicago)? ✔Correct answer-
Henry Ford
Who carried out most of the commercial related aviation activities before the Air Mail Act?
✔Correct answer-The US Army carried mail for the post office
What is a Fixed Based Operator? ✔Correct answer-FBOs were originally fuel and rest stops for
pilots. The buildings were then turned into terminals as aviation grew.
What is the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE)? ✔Correct answer-Established in
1928.
First airport management trade organization.
Consisted of 10 airport directors attending the National Air Races at mines Field (now LAX).
Adopted first professional accreditation standards in 1954.
Provides lobbying, regulatory services, training, accreditation, and other professional development
programs.
, What was the Aeronautics Branch was reorganized and restructured into? ✔Correct answer-Civil
Aeronautics Administration (CAA) under the Dept of Commerce
What did the Civil Aeronautics Admin (CAA) split into, and what were the duties of each branch?
✔Correct answer-CAA maintained Air Traffic Control, Pilot and aircraft certification, Safety
enforcement, and
Airway development
Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) ensured safety rules, conducting aircraft accident investigations,
economic regulation of the airlines, approving air routes, and regulating airfares
What was the Development of Landing Areas for National Defence (DLAND) appropriation?
✔Correct answer-Secretary of War and Commerce & Secretary of the Navy could acquire land for
airport development needed for the war effort.
986 airports built in the US.
Post war, 500 airports were declared surplus and handed over to public cities and counties for civil
use.
Airport sponsor had to promise to
make the airport available for public use without discrimination, and to allow the the government to
use in the event of a national emergency.
What did the Federal Air to Airports Program (FAAP) in 1946 do? ✔Correct answer-Provided grant
funds for certain projects, mostly RW and TW development.
Airport had be in the National airport Plan (NAP)
Airports held to previous promises to allow the public to use the airport without discrimination.
Federal Aviation Act of 1958 ✔Correct answer-Air Commerce Act was repealed, and the Federal
Aviation Agency (FAA) was created.
The FAA was directed take over rule-making from the CAB, and was responsible for developing a
common civil-military system of air navigation and air traffic control
When was the FAA moved and renamed to the Federal Aviation Administration? ✔Correct answer-
Federal Aviation Agency renamed to Federal Aviation Administration in 1966, and put under the
newly created Dept of Transportation.
Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970 ✔Correct answer-Created the Airport Development
Aid Program (ADAP) and the Planning Grant Program (PGP), expanded the list of eligible projects,
created the Part 139 Certification of Airports, created the Aviation Trust Fund.
What was the Aviation Trust Fund? ✔Correct answer-Created under the Airport and Airway
Development Act of 1970 so that only those who use aviation would pay for aviation, it collected a
passenger seat tax, a cargo waybill tax, a fuel tax, and an aircraft registration fee.
Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 ✔Correct answer-Created the Airport Improvement
Program where 75-90% of a project is covered by federal money.
100% VERIFIED ANSWERS|2025-2026 COMPLETE
EXAM|LATEST UPDATE|GRADED A+
Where does TSA have regulatory influences and authority within the terminal? ✔Correct answer-1.
Checkpoint operations
2. Airport police response to checkpoints and incidents
3. Unattended bags
4. Unattended vehicles
What did the Air Commerce Act (1926) prohibit? ✔Correct answer-Using federal funds to build or
improve airports.
Works Progress Administration (WPA) ✔Correct answer-Provided 50% of needed funding.
Built over 800 new airports.
Air Commerce Act of 1926 created what? ✔Correct answer-Aeronautics Branch (soon known as
the Civil Aeronautics Admin) under the Dept. of Commerce.
Charged with fostering air commerce, establishing air traffic control, licensing for pilots, aircraft
certification, establishing airways, and issue and enforce air traffic rules
What was the effective beginning of privatized space flight? ✔Correct answer-Final flight of the
U.S. space shuttle.
What does a GA Reliever airport do? ✔Correct answer-Relieves a Commercial airport from GA
traffic.
What is the enplanement threshold for commercial service? ✔Correct answer-2,500
Large hubs have what percentage of U.S. enplanements? ✔Correct answer-70% or more of the
enplanements
What are the cloud ceiling and visibility requirements for Visual Flight Rules? ✔Correct answer-
Cloud ceiling: 1,000'
Visibility requirements: 3 miles
"1000 and 3"
What is the entity who is responsible for airport governance? ✔Correct answer-The Airport
Sponsor.
What is the most common airport ownership type in the U.S.? ✔Correct answer-Municipalities
(cities and counties)
Who sets standards for security access control systems? ✔Correct answer-The Radio Technical
Commission on Aeronautics
How many days are required for the Notice of Proposed Rule-Making? ✔Correct answer-30 days
,What is the directive to FAA personnel on specific subjects and programs? ✔Correct answer-The
FAA Order
What is the method the FAA has found to be the best to extend federal policy to local government
units? ✔Correct answer-Grant Assurances
What is 14 CFR Part 13 Investigation and Enforcement ✔Correct answer-The informal complaint
system that is filed with the Airport District Office. FAA will investigate and offer to help resolve. If
the sponsor is in violation, the FAA provides the opportunity to comply.
A Notice of Noncompliance may be issued if the FAA believes the airport is non-compliant. The letter
will identify the apparent violation(s), specifies corrective action(s), and gives a deadline.
What is 14 CFR Part 16 Rules of Practice for Federally-Assisted Airport Enforcement Proceedings
✔Correct answer-The formal complaint system that is filed in Washington DC. It involves financial
compliance and reasonable and nondiscriminatory access, but includes all obligations in the Grant
Assurances and property deeds.
Formal agency finding regarding the compliance status of an airport.
Prior to a Part 16 complaint, a person must have initiated and engaged in good faith efforts to resolve
informally (Part 13 will work).
Deadline driven, including pleadings, investigations, and lawyers
If airport is non-compliant, FAA may withhold new grants, withhold payment on existing grants,
terminate eligibility for future grants and passenger facility charges; cease and desist orders; civil
penalties; or judicial enforcement.
What does the Tucker Act do? ✔Correct answer-Waives immunity over claims arising out of
contracts with the federal government.
What agency has the power to make safety related regulations after an aircraft accident? ✔Correct
answer-The FAA
Who produces standards and recommended practices for aviation worldwide? ✔Correct answer-
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
What professional industry trade organization represents GA pilots of small aircraft? ✔Correct
answer-Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association
What does Grant Assurance #21 (Compatible Land Use) ensure? ✔Correct answer-The sponsor
must make a reasonable attempt at compatible land use outside airport property boundaries.
Incompatible land is generally residential, schools, hospitals or public health entities, and concert
halls.
What document must always be up to date to receive FAA funds? ✔Correct answer-ALP
The ALP must delineate the airport boundaries, all facilities, and identify future development plans.
FAA approval represents concurrence in the conformity of design standards and criteria.
According to the FAA, where do most conflicts occur in permitted activities (aero or non-aero)?
✔Correct answer-Non-aeronautical
What are airport tenants and users required to adhere to? ✔Correct answer-Rules and Regulations
,What is the benefit of grant assurances to the airport user? ✔Correct answer-Ensures adequate
level of safe and effective service
What are examples of non-aeronautical revenue sources? ✔Correct answer-Concessions, parking
lot charges, rental cars, advertising space, industrial park
Is a payment to a municipality in excess of the cost acceptable? (eg for police or fire service)
✔Correct answer-No. This is an example of a revenue diversion.
What is the most common aeronautical charge at a commercial service airport? ✔Correct answer-
Landing fees.
Based on per operation and per weight basis; relatively small portion of an airline operating costs,
yet highly contentious during negotiations.
What is the FAA's position on the airport fee and rental structure for aeronautical services?
✔Correct answer-Rates and fees must be as self-sustaining as possible.
What is the FAA's position on the airport fee and rental structure of non-aeronautical services?
✔Correct answer-Rates and fees should be Fair Market Value.
What type of agreement between the airlines and the airport puts the airlines at the most risk?
✔Correct answer-Residual
What was the Air Mail Act of 1925, also known as the Kelly Act, and what did it do? ✔Correct
answer-Authorized the Postmaster General to contract for domestic airmail service with commercial
air carriers
Only those who use aviation would pay for it
Who began the first U.S. air freight service (between Detroit and Chicago)? ✔Correct answer-
Henry Ford
Who carried out most of the commercial related aviation activities before the Air Mail Act?
✔Correct answer-The US Army carried mail for the post office
What is a Fixed Based Operator? ✔Correct answer-FBOs were originally fuel and rest stops for
pilots. The buildings were then turned into terminals as aviation grew.
What is the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE)? ✔Correct answer-Established in
1928.
First airport management trade organization.
Consisted of 10 airport directors attending the National Air Races at mines Field (now LAX).
Adopted first professional accreditation standards in 1954.
Provides lobbying, regulatory services, training, accreditation, and other professional development
programs.
, What was the Aeronautics Branch was reorganized and restructured into? ✔Correct answer-Civil
Aeronautics Administration (CAA) under the Dept of Commerce
What did the Civil Aeronautics Admin (CAA) split into, and what were the duties of each branch?
✔Correct answer-CAA maintained Air Traffic Control, Pilot and aircraft certification, Safety
enforcement, and
Airway development
Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) ensured safety rules, conducting aircraft accident investigations,
economic regulation of the airlines, approving air routes, and regulating airfares
What was the Development of Landing Areas for National Defence (DLAND) appropriation?
✔Correct answer-Secretary of War and Commerce & Secretary of the Navy could acquire land for
airport development needed for the war effort.
986 airports built in the US.
Post war, 500 airports were declared surplus and handed over to public cities and counties for civil
use.
Airport sponsor had to promise to
make the airport available for public use without discrimination, and to allow the the government to
use in the event of a national emergency.
What did the Federal Air to Airports Program (FAAP) in 1946 do? ✔Correct answer-Provided grant
funds for certain projects, mostly RW and TW development.
Airport had be in the National airport Plan (NAP)
Airports held to previous promises to allow the public to use the airport without discrimination.
Federal Aviation Act of 1958 ✔Correct answer-Air Commerce Act was repealed, and the Federal
Aviation Agency (FAA) was created.
The FAA was directed take over rule-making from the CAB, and was responsible for developing a
common civil-military system of air navigation and air traffic control
When was the FAA moved and renamed to the Federal Aviation Administration? ✔Correct answer-
Federal Aviation Agency renamed to Federal Aviation Administration in 1966, and put under the
newly created Dept of Transportation.
Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970 ✔Correct answer-Created the Airport Development
Aid Program (ADAP) and the Planning Grant Program (PGP), expanded the list of eligible projects,
created the Part 139 Certification of Airports, created the Aviation Trust Fund.
What was the Aviation Trust Fund? ✔Correct answer-Created under the Airport and Airway
Development Act of 1970 so that only those who use aviation would pay for aviation, it collected a
passenger seat tax, a cargo waybill tax, a fuel tax, and an aircraft registration fee.
Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 ✔Correct answer-Created the Airport Improvement
Program where 75-90% of a project is covered by federal money.
