- Administrator
means the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration.
- aeronautics
means the science and art of flight.
- agency
means the Department of Transportation;
- air carrier
means a citizen of the United States undertaking by any means, directly or indirectly, to provide air transportation.
- air carrier transportation property
means property (as defined by the Secretary of Transportation) that an air carrier providing air transportation owns or uses.
- air commerce
means foreign air commerce, interstate air commerce, the transportation of mail by aircraft, the operation of aircraft within the limits of a Federal airway, or the operation of aircraft that directly affects, or may endanger safety in, foreign or interstate air commerce.
- air navigation facility
means a facility used, available for use, or designed for use, in aid of air navigation, including—
- air traffic control system
means the combination of elements used to safely and efficiently monitor, direct, control, and guide aircraft in the United States and United States-assigned airspace, including—
- air transportation
means foreign air transportation, interstate air transportation, or the transportation of mail by aircraft.
- aircraft
means any contrivance invented, used, or designed to navigate, or fly in, the air.
- aircraft engine
means an engine used, or intended to be used, to propel an aircraft, including a part, appurtenance, and accessory of the engine, except a propeller.
- airman
means an individual—
- airport
means a landing area used regularly by aircraft for receiving or discharging passengers or cargo.
- all-cargo air transportation
means the transportation by aircraft in interstate air transportation of only property or only mail, or both.
- antitrust laws
has the meaning given that term in the first section of the Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. 12).
- appliance
means an instrument, equipment, apparatus, a part, an appurtenance, or an accessory used, capable of being used, or intended to be used, in operating or controlling aircraft in flight, including a parachute, communication equipment, and another mechanism installed in or attached to aircraft during flight, and not a part of an aircraft, aircraft engine, or propeller.
- armed forces
has the meaning given such term by section 101 of title 10.
- assessment
means valuation for a property tax levied by a taxing district.
- assessment jurisdiction
means a geographical area in a State used in determining the assessed value of property for ad valorem taxation.
- career appointee
means a Federal Aviation Administration career executive;
- cargo
means property, mail, or both.
- charter air carrier
means an air carrier holding a certificate of public convenience and necessity that authorizes it to provide charter air transportation.
- charter air transportation
means charter trips in air transportation authorized under this part.
- citizen of the United States
means—
- civil aircraft
means an aircraft except a public aircraft.
- civil aircraft of the United States
means an aircraft registered under chapter 441 of this title.
- commercial air tour operation over a national park
means any flight, conducted for compensation or hire in a powered aircraft where a purpose of the flight is sightseeing over a national park, within ½ mile outside the boundary of any national park (except the Grand Canyon National Park), or over tribal lands (except those within or abutting the Grand Canyon National Park), during which the aircraft flies—
- commercial air tour operator
means any person who conducts a commercial air tour operation over a national park.
- commercial and industrial property
means property (except transportation property and land used primarily for agriculture or timber growing) devoted to a commercial or industrial use and subject to a property tax levy.
- commercial product
has the meaning given such term in section 103 of title 41, except that it shall not include a contract for the transportation by air of passengers.
- commercial purposes
means the transportation of persons or property for compensation or hire, but does not include the operation of an aircraft by the armed forces for reimbursement when that reimbursement is required by any Federal statute, regulation, or directive, in effect on November 1, 1999, or by one government on behalf of another government under a cost reimbursement agreement if the government on whose behalf the operation is conducted certifies to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration that the operation is necessary to respond to a significant and imminent threat to life or property (including natural resources) and that no service by a private operator is reasonably available to meet the threat.
- conditional sales contract
means a contract—
- control
means control by any means.
- conveyance
means an instrument, including a conditional sales contract, affecting title to, or an interest in, property.
- covered air carrier
means an air carrier that files for chapter 7 or chapter 11 of title 11 bankruptcy protection, or has an involuntary chapter 7 of title 11 bankruptcy proceeding commenced against it, after the date of enactment of this subsection.
- covered position
means a safety-critical position, to include personnel located at contract towers, based in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands.
- cyber common operating picture
means the correlation of a detected cyber incident or cyber threat in the national airspace system and other operational anomalies to provide a holistic view of potential cause and impact.
- cyber environment
means the information environment consisting of the interdependent networks of information technology infrastructures and resident data, including the internet, telecommunications networks, computer systems, and embedded processors and controllers.
- cyber incident
means an action that creates noticeable degradation, disruption, or destruction to the cyber environment and causes a safety or other negative impact on operations of—
- cyber threat
means the threat of an action that, if carried out, would constitute a cyber incident or an electronic attack.
- Director
means the Director of the National Park Service.
- domestic animal
means a domestic cat (Felis catus) or a domestic dog (Canis familiaris).
- electronic attack
means the use of electromagnetic spectrum energy to impede operations in the cyber environment, including through techniques such as jamming or spoofing.
- eligible agency
means a public agency that controls a commercial service airport.
- eligible airport-related project
means any of the following projects:
- eligible project costs
means the difference between the cost of standard school construction and the cost of construction necessary to mitigate classroom noise to the standards of the Federal Aviation Administration.
- existing commercial air tour operator
means a commercial air tour operator that was actively engaged in the business of providing commercial air tour operations over a national park at any time during the 12-month period ending on the date of the enactment of this section.
- Federal airway
means a part of the navigable airspace that the Administrator designates as a Federal airway.
- foreign air carrier
means a person, not a citizen of the United States, undertaking by any means, directly or indirectly, to provide foreign air transportation.
- foreign air commerce
means the transportation of passengers or property by aircraft for compensation, the transportation of mail by aircraft, or the operation of aircraft in furthering a business or vocation, between a place in the United States and a place outside the United States when any part of the transportation or operation is by aircraft.
- foreign air transportation
means the transportation of passengers or property by aircraft as a common carrier for compensation, or the transportation of mail by aircraft, between a place in the United States and a place outside the United States when any part of the transportation is by aircraft.
- governmental function
means an activity undertaken by a government, such as national defense, intelligence missions, firefighting, search and rescue, law enforcement (including transport of prisoners, detainees, and illegal aliens), aeronautical research, biological or geological resource management (including data collection on civil aviation systems undergoing research, development, test, or evaluation at a test range (as such term is defined in section 44801)), infrastructure inspections, or any other activity undertaken by a governmental entity that the Administrator determines is inherently governmental.
- ground support equipment
means service and maintenance equipment used at an airport to support aeronautical operations and related activities.
- inherently governmental technical assistance and training
means technical assistance and training that—
- interstate air commerce
means the transportation of passengers or property by aircraft for compensation, the transportation of mail by aircraft, or the operation of aircraft in furthering a business or vocation—
- interstate air transportation
means the transportation of passengers or property by aircraft as a common carrier for compensation, or the transportation of mail by aircraft—
- intrastate air carrier
means a citizen of the United States undertaking by any means to provide only intrastate air transportation.
- intrastate air transportation
means the transportation by a common carrier of passengers or property for compensation, entirely in the same State, by turbojet-powered aircraft capable of carrying at least 30 passengers.
- landing area
means a place on land or water, including an airport or intermediate landing field, used, or intended to be used, for the takeoff and landing of aircraft, even when facilities are not provided for sheltering, servicing, or repairing aircraft, or for receiving or discharging passengers or cargo.
- large hub airport
means a commercial service airport (as defined in section 47102) that has at least 1.0 percent of the passenger boardings.
- mail
means United States mail and foreign transit mail.
- major adverse personnel action
means a suspension of more than 14 days, a reduction in pay or grade, a removal for conduct or performance, a nondisciplinary removal, a furlough of 30 days or less (but not including placement in a nonpay status as the result of a lapse of appropriations or an enactment by Congress), or a reduction in force action.
- medium hub airport
means a commercial service airport (as defined in section 47102) that has at least 0.25 percent but less than 1.0 percent of the passenger boardings.
- national park
means any unit of the National Park System.
- navigable airspace
means airspace above the minimum altitudes of flight prescribed by regulations under this subpart and subpart III of this part, including airspace needed to ensure safety in the takeoff and landing of aircraft.
- new entrant commercial air tour operator
means a commercial air tour operator that—
- nonhub airport
means a commercial service airport (as defined in section 47102) that has less than 0.05 percent of the passenger boardings.
- other commercial air service
means an aircraft operation that (i) is within the United States territorial airspace;
- passenger facility charge
means a charge imposed under this section.
- passenger facility revenue
means revenue derived from a passenger facility charge.
- pay
means money received by an employee for services.
- predatory
means a practice that violates the antitrust laws as defined in the first section of the Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. 12).
- price
means a rate, fare, or charge.
- propeller
includes a part, appurtenance, and accessory of a propeller.
- proposal
means information contained in or originating from any proposal, including a technical, management, or cost proposal, submitted by an offeror in response to the requirements of a solicitation for a competitive proposal.
- public aircraft
means any of the following:
- qualified non-crewmember
means an individual, other than a member of the crew, aboard an aircraft—
- senior career employee
means a Federal Aviation Administration career senior professional;
- senior executive
means a Federal Aviation Administration executive;
- significant business interest
means an air carrier or foreign air carrier that had no less than 1.0 percent of passenger boardings at the airport in the prior calendar year, had at least 25,000 passenger boardings at the airport in the prior calendar year, or provides scheduled service at the airport.
- significant cyber incident
means a cyber incident, or a group of related cyber incidents, that the Administrator determines is likely to result in demonstrable harm to the national airspace system of the United States.
- small hub airport
means a commercial service airport (as defined in section 47102) that has at least 0.05 percent but less than 0.25 percent of the passenger boardings.
- spare part
means an accessory, appurtenance, or part of an aircraft (except an aircraft engine or propeller), aircraft engine (except a propeller), propeller, or appliance, that is to be installed at a later time in an aircraft, aircraft engine, propeller, or appliance.
- State
includes the District of Columbia, a territory or possession of the United States, and a political authority of at least 2 States.
- State authority
means an authority of a State designated under State law—
- ticket agent
means a person (except an air carrier, a foreign air carrier, or an employee of an air carrier or foreign air carrier) that as a principal or agent sells, offers for sale, negotiates for, or holds itself out as selling, providing, or arranging for, air transportation.
- tribal lands
means Indian country (as that term is defined in section 1151 of title 18) that is within or abutting a national park.
- United States
means the States of the United States, the District of Columbia, and the territories and possessions of the United States, including the territorial sea and the overlying airspace.