AIRPORT FIREFIGHTER TEST PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTION RATED A+
✔✔Superfund Act - ✔✔The common name for the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA); a 1980 U.S. federal act that
imposes a tax on the chemical and petroleum industries, funds the cleanup of
abandoned and nonoperating hazardous waste sites, and authorizes the federal
government to respond directly to the release or threatened release of substances that
may pose a threat to human health or the environment.
✔✔Water Quality Act - ✔✔Amended the Clean Water Act by addressing storm water
pollution issues - requires industrial storm water discharges and municipal sewage
discharge facilities to acquire permits.
✔✔SARA Title III - ✔✔Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act (1986). Federal
mandate. Requires MSDS - material data safety sheets. All business must provide
these for any hazardous materials for 1st responders. Right to know act
✔✔Oil Pollution Act of 1990 - ✔✔Under this law, any onshore or offshore oil facility, oil
shipper, vessel owner, or vessel operator that discharges oil into navigable waters or
onto an adjoining shore may be liable for clean-up costs, as well as damages for harm
to natural resources, private property, and local economies. It also created an oil clean-
up and economic compensation fund and required oil tankers using U.S. ports to be
double hulled by the year 2011.
✔✔FWPPCA - ✔✔Federal Water Pollution Protection Control Act
✔✔Federal Water Pollution Control Act - ✔✔Enhances the quality of water resources
and prevents, controls, and abates water pollution
✔✔EPA policies - ✔✔is to respond to every violation and in a way associated with the
seriousness or circumstances of the violation
✔✔OSHA stands for - ✔✔Occupational Safety and Health Administration
✔✔14 CFR Part 139, Certification of Airports - ✔✔This regulation requires the FAA to
issue airport operating certificates to airports that (a) serve scheduled and unscheduled
air carrier aircraft with more than 30 seats; (b) serve scheduled air carrier operations in
aircraft with more than nine seats but less than 31 seats; and (c) the FAA Administrator
requires to have a certificate. Part 139 does not apply to airports at which air carrier
passenger operations are conducted only because the airport has been designated as
an alternate airport. Airport Operating Certificates serve to ensure safety in air
transportation. To obtain a certificate, an airport must agree to certain operational and
safety standards and provide for such things as firefighting and rescue equipment.
These requirements vary depending on the size of the airport and the type of flights
, available. The regulation, however, does allow FAA to issue certain exemptions to
airports that serve few passengers yearly and for which some requirements might
create a financial hardship.
✔✔14 CFR PART 139.317 - ✔✔ARFF: EQUIPMENT AND AGENTS
✔✔14 CFR PART 139.319 - ✔✔ARFF: Operation Requirements
✔✔14 CFR PART 139.321 - ✔✔Handling and Storage of Hazardous Substances and
Materials
✔✔14 CFR PART 139.325 - ✔✔Airport Emergency plan
✔✔Airport AEP - ✔✔Airport Emergency Plan
✔✔14 CFR PART 139.323 - ✔✔Traffic and Wind direction indicators
✔✔AC 150/5200-12c - ✔✔First Responders responsibility for protecting evidence of an
aircraft accident/incident
✔✔AC 150/5210-17C - ✔✔Programs for training of Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting
Personnel
✔✔AC 150/5210-23 - ✔✔ARFF vehicle and high reach extendable turret (HRET)
operations, training, qualification
✔✔Crosswind leg - ✔✔flight path at a right angle to the landing runway off its upwind
leg
✔✔Downwind Leg - ✔✔Flight path parallel to the landing runway in the direction
opposite to landing. (normally extends between the crosswind leg and the base leg
✔✔Base leg - ✔✔flight path at a right angle to the landing runway off the approach end
✔✔Final approach - ✔✔Portion of the landing pattern in which the aircraft is lined up
with the runway and is heading straight in to land
✔✔traffic pattern - ✔✔that is prescribed for aircraft landing or taking off an aiport.
✔✔Straight in approach - ✔✔Entry into the traffic pattern by interception of the
extended runway center line (final approach course) without executing any other portion
of the traffic pattern
✔✔ATC - ✔✔Air Traffic Control
AND SOLUTION RATED A+
✔✔Superfund Act - ✔✔The common name for the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA); a 1980 U.S. federal act that
imposes a tax on the chemical and petroleum industries, funds the cleanup of
abandoned and nonoperating hazardous waste sites, and authorizes the federal
government to respond directly to the release or threatened release of substances that
may pose a threat to human health or the environment.
✔✔Water Quality Act - ✔✔Amended the Clean Water Act by addressing storm water
pollution issues - requires industrial storm water discharges and municipal sewage
discharge facilities to acquire permits.
✔✔SARA Title III - ✔✔Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act (1986). Federal
mandate. Requires MSDS - material data safety sheets. All business must provide
these for any hazardous materials for 1st responders. Right to know act
✔✔Oil Pollution Act of 1990 - ✔✔Under this law, any onshore or offshore oil facility, oil
shipper, vessel owner, or vessel operator that discharges oil into navigable waters or
onto an adjoining shore may be liable for clean-up costs, as well as damages for harm
to natural resources, private property, and local economies. It also created an oil clean-
up and economic compensation fund and required oil tankers using U.S. ports to be
double hulled by the year 2011.
✔✔FWPPCA - ✔✔Federal Water Pollution Protection Control Act
✔✔Federal Water Pollution Control Act - ✔✔Enhances the quality of water resources
and prevents, controls, and abates water pollution
✔✔EPA policies - ✔✔is to respond to every violation and in a way associated with the
seriousness or circumstances of the violation
✔✔OSHA stands for - ✔✔Occupational Safety and Health Administration
✔✔14 CFR Part 139, Certification of Airports - ✔✔This regulation requires the FAA to
issue airport operating certificates to airports that (a) serve scheduled and unscheduled
air carrier aircraft with more than 30 seats; (b) serve scheduled air carrier operations in
aircraft with more than nine seats but less than 31 seats; and (c) the FAA Administrator
requires to have a certificate. Part 139 does not apply to airports at which air carrier
passenger operations are conducted only because the airport has been designated as
an alternate airport. Airport Operating Certificates serve to ensure safety in air
transportation. To obtain a certificate, an airport must agree to certain operational and
safety standards and provide for such things as firefighting and rescue equipment.
These requirements vary depending on the size of the airport and the type of flights
, available. The regulation, however, does allow FAA to issue certain exemptions to
airports that serve few passengers yearly and for which some requirements might
create a financial hardship.
✔✔14 CFR PART 139.317 - ✔✔ARFF: EQUIPMENT AND AGENTS
✔✔14 CFR PART 139.319 - ✔✔ARFF: Operation Requirements
✔✔14 CFR PART 139.321 - ✔✔Handling and Storage of Hazardous Substances and
Materials
✔✔14 CFR PART 139.325 - ✔✔Airport Emergency plan
✔✔Airport AEP - ✔✔Airport Emergency Plan
✔✔14 CFR PART 139.323 - ✔✔Traffic and Wind direction indicators
✔✔AC 150/5200-12c - ✔✔First Responders responsibility for protecting evidence of an
aircraft accident/incident
✔✔AC 150/5210-17C - ✔✔Programs for training of Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting
Personnel
✔✔AC 150/5210-23 - ✔✔ARFF vehicle and high reach extendable turret (HRET)
operations, training, qualification
✔✔Crosswind leg - ✔✔flight path at a right angle to the landing runway off its upwind
leg
✔✔Downwind Leg - ✔✔Flight path parallel to the landing runway in the direction
opposite to landing. (normally extends between the crosswind leg and the base leg
✔✔Base leg - ✔✔flight path at a right angle to the landing runway off the approach end
✔✔Final approach - ✔✔Portion of the landing pattern in which the aircraft is lined up
with the runway and is heading straight in to land
✔✔traffic pattern - ✔✔that is prescribed for aircraft landing or taking off an aiport.
✔✔Straight in approach - ✔✔Entry into the traffic pattern by interception of the
extended runway center line (final approach course) without executing any other portion
of the traffic pattern
✔✔ATC - ✔✔Air Traffic Control
