
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 75 (Thursday, April 20, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 18683]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-07944]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

[Summary Notice No. PE-2017-24]


Petition for Exemption; Summary of Petition Received

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of petition for exemption received.

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SUMMARY: This notice contains a summary of a petitions seeking relief 
from specified requirements of 14 CFR. The purpose of this notice is to 
improve the public's awareness of, and participation in, this aspect of 
FAA's regulatory activities. Neither publication of this notice nor the 
inclusion or omission of information in the summary is intended to 
affect the legal status of the petitions or their final disposition.

DATES: Comments on this petition must identify the petition docket 
number and must be received on or before May 10, 2017.

ADDRESSES: You may send comments identified by Docket Number FAA-2017-
0056 using any of the following methods:
     Government-wide rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and follow the instructions for sending your 
comments electronically.
     Mail: Send comments to the Docket Management Facility; 
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., West 
Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590.
     Fax: Fax comments to the Docket Management Facility at 
202-493-2251.
     Hand Delivery: Bring comments to the Docket Management 
Facility in Room W12-140 of the West Building Ground Floor at 1200 New 
Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday 
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
    Privacy: We will post all comments we receive, without change, to 
http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information you 
provide. Using the search function of our docket Web site, anyone can 
find and read the comments received into any of our dockets, including 
the name of the individual sending the comment (or signing the comment 
for an association, business, labor union, etc.). You may review DOT's 
complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal Register published on 
April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477-78).
    Docket: To read background documents or comments received, go to 
http://www.regulations.gov at any time or to the Docket Management 
Facility in Room W12-140 of the West Building Ground Floor at 1200 New 
Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday 
through Friday, except Federal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joshua Parker, (202) 267-1538, 800 
Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20591.
    This notice is published pursuant to 14 CFR 11.85.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on April 14, 2017.
Dale Bouffiou,
Deputy Director, Office of Rulemaking.

Petition for Exemption

    Docket No.: FAA-2017-0056.
    Petitioner: Leonardo Helicopters.
    Sections of 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR 43.3(h); 43.15(b);

61.163(a)(3);

91.103(b)(1); 91.126(b); 91.129(e)(1)-(3); 91.131(a)(2); 91.146(b)(5); 
91.151(b); 91.155(b); 91.157(b)(5); 91.167(a)(3); 91.169(b)(2) & 
(c)(1)(i) & (ii); 91.175(f)(2)(iii) & (4)(i); 91.205(d)(3)(i) & (ii); 
91.207(e); 91.223(a)(c); 91.409(e); 91.411(a); 91.501(a); 91.503(a); 
91.507; 91.509(a) & (b)(4); 91.511(a); 91.513(a) & (f)(1) & (2); 
91.515(a); 91.517(a) & (b); 91.519(a); 91.521(a); 91.525(a); 91.527(a), 
(b)(3), & (c); 91.531(a)(1); 91.603; 91.609(c)(3), (h), (i)(3) & (j); 
91.1037; 91.1045(b); 91.1101(b)(6)(iv), (b)(6)(iv)(B) & (b)(6)(iv)(D); 
91.1439(a)(2)(i), (ii), & (vi);

97.3;

110.2;

119.1(e)(2), (e)(4)(v), (e)(7) & (e)(7)(iii); 119.23(b); 119.25;

133.1; 133.11; 133.13; 133.17; 133.19; 133.21(a); 133.23; 133.25; 
133.27; 133.33; 133.35; 133.39; 133.41; 133.43(a); 133.45; 133.47; 
133.49; 133.51;

135.1(a)(9); 135.4(a)(3); 135.23(r)(7); 135.65(c); 135.151(a), (b), (g) 
& (h); 135.154(a)(2) & (c); 135.158(a); 135.159(a)(1) & (2); 
135.170(c)(2); 135.168; 135.203(a) & (b); 135.205(a) & (b); 135.207; 
135.227(c)(2), (c)(3), (d), & (e); 135.243(a)(2), (b)(3), (b)(4) & 
(c)(3) & (4); 135.247(a)(3), (a)(3)(i), (a)(3)(i)(B)-(D) & 
(a)(3)(ii)(B); 135.271; 135.293(a)(9), (b), (c) & (h); 135.297(c)(1)(i) 
& (ii); 135.336(b)(1); 135.345(b)(6)(iv) & (b)(6)(iv)(D); 135.361(a); 
135.363(b) & (f); 135.379(a); 135.385(a) & (b); 135.387(a) & (b); 
135.413(b)(1); 135.421(a) & (b); 135.427(b); 135.439(a)(2)(i), (ii) & 
(vi), (b)(1), (b)(2); 135.601(a), (b)(1)(i) & (ii) & (b)(2); 135.603; 
135.605(a), (b) & (c); 135.607; 135.609(a); 135.611(a) & (b); 
135.617(a) & (c); 135.619(a), (b), & (g)(1); 135.621(a) & (b);

and 142.11(d)(2)(iii)

    Description of Relief Sought: AgustaWestland Philadelphia 
Corporation (AWPC) seeks an exemption on behalf of all potential AW609 
operators for exemption from certain prescriptive terms within certain 
sections of 14 CFR. The AW609 is a tiltrotor aircraft manufactured by 
Augusta Westland. Because the AW609 opearates as a helicopter for 
takeoff and landing, and as an airplane for other flight, AWPC asserts 
that potential operators of the AW609, require exemption(s) from those 
sections of 14 CFR that reference ``airplane,'' ``airplanes,'' 
``rotorcraft,'' ``rotor,'' ``fixed-wing,'' ``fixed-wing aircraft,'' 
``copter,'' ``helicopter,'' ``AFM, propeller and airplane/rotorcraft 
flight manuals''. AWPC describes the AW609 as a vertical take-off and 
landing (VTOL) aircraft that is essentially a helicopter from a flight 
characteristics and performance standpoint. AWPC believes that relief 
through the exemption process will enable sales of tiltrotor aircraft, 
which will contribute to the balance-of-trade, the gross domestic 
product and economic health of the United States. AWPC also asserts the 
level of safety is not compromised in comparison to similar helicopter 
operations, and that granting this relief is in the public's interest 
and maintains that an acceptable equivalent level of safety will exist 
by substituting the term tiltrotor or aircraft for helicopter and other 
specific terms that exist in the regulations listed above.

[FR Doc. 2017-07944 Filed 4-19-17; 8:45 am]
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