AFAA TEST BUNDLES BOARD
EXAMINATION 2026 QUESTIONS
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
⩥ Airport Executive. Answer: An individual (airport director or
manager)
⩥ Airport Operator. Answer: Airport management structure overall
(Sponsor, Executive & personnel essential to the operation)
⩥ Airports Customers-Pilots. Answer: Airport must first serve and
understand the pilot
⩥ Airport Executive Skills. Answer: Strategy, marketing, finance,
accounting, operations management, organizational behavior and human
resources
⩥ Air Mail Act/Kelly Act of 1925. 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). Answer: Get fuel, conduct flight
planning and take care of pilots needs
,⩥ Air Commerce Act of 1926. 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). Answer:
Under Department of Commerce
1. fostering commerce (important)
2. issuing and enforcing air traffic rules.
3.licensing pilots
4. certifying aircraft
5. establishing airways
6.operating and maintaining nav aids
-Now all responsibility of FAA
⩥ AAAE. Answer: First airport management trade organization, 1928
⩥ Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA). Answer: Aeronautics
Branch became the CAA-1930's
,⩥ Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB)-1940. 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. Answer: Airlines were able to raise
or lower airfares and add or remove routes
allowed hub and spoke
⩥ Air Cargo Deregulation Act of 1976. 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. 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. 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. 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). Answer: listed recommendations for
construction, maintenance and operation. Provided 50% of funding,
airport other 1/2.
⩥ Sponsor (Grant) Assurances. Answer: public use airports cannot deny
civil aeronautical operations. Promise made in order to receive grants
⩥ Federal Aviation Act of 1958. Answer: Repealed CAA and created the
Federal Aviation Agency. FAA and directed FAA to take safety rule
making from CAB
⩥ Federal Aviation Administration 1966. Answer: FAA renamed and
brought under the Department of Transportation, regulates aviation
safety in the US, has 9 regional offices and Airport District Offices in
each state, managed by an Administrator, assisted by a Deputy
Administrator and 5 Associate Administrators, Major Roles:
1. Regulate civil aviation
2. Encouraging development of aviation and technology
3. Air Traffic Control
4.Research and develop National Airspace System
EXAMINATION 2026 QUESTIONS
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
⩥ Airport Executive. Answer: An individual (airport director or
manager)
⩥ Airport Operator. Answer: Airport management structure overall
(Sponsor, Executive & personnel essential to the operation)
⩥ Airports Customers-Pilots. Answer: Airport must first serve and
understand the pilot
⩥ Airport Executive Skills. Answer: Strategy, marketing, finance,
accounting, operations management, organizational behavior and human
resources
⩥ Air Mail Act/Kelly Act of 1925. 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). Answer: Get fuel, conduct flight
planning and take care of pilots needs
,⩥ Air Commerce Act of 1926. 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). Answer:
Under Department of Commerce
1. fostering commerce (important)
2. issuing and enforcing air traffic rules.
3.licensing pilots
4. certifying aircraft
5. establishing airways
6.operating and maintaining nav aids
-Now all responsibility of FAA
⩥ AAAE. Answer: First airport management trade organization, 1928
⩥ Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA). Answer: Aeronautics
Branch became the CAA-1930's
,⩥ Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB)-1940. 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. Answer: Airlines were able to raise
or lower airfares and add or remove routes
allowed hub and spoke
⩥ Air Cargo Deregulation Act of 1976. 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. 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. 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. 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). Answer: listed recommendations for
construction, maintenance and operation. Provided 50% of funding,
airport other 1/2.
⩥ Sponsor (Grant) Assurances. Answer: public use airports cannot deny
civil aeronautical operations. Promise made in order to receive grants
⩥ Federal Aviation Act of 1958. Answer: Repealed CAA and created the
Federal Aviation Agency. FAA and directed FAA to take safety rule
making from CAB
⩥ Federal Aviation Administration 1966. Answer: FAA renamed and
brought under the Department of Transportation, regulates aviation
safety in the US, has 9 regional offices and Airport District Offices in
each state, managed by an Administrator, assisted by a Deputy
Administrator and 5 Associate Administrators, Major Roles:
1. Regulate civil aviation
2. Encouraging development of aviation and technology
3. Air Traffic Control
4.Research and develop National Airspace System
