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§ 139.5
139.303
Personnel.
139.305
Paved areas.
139.307
Unpaved areas.
139.309
Safety areas.
139.311
Marking, signs, and lighting.
139.313
Snow and ice control.
139.315
Aircraft rescue and firefighting:
Index determination.
139.317
Aircraft rescue and firefighting:
Equipment and agents.
139.319
Aircraft rescue and firefighting:
Operational requirements.
139.321
Handling and storing of hazardous
substances and materials.
139.323
Traffic and wind direction indica-
tors.
139.325
Airport emergency plan.
139.327
Self-inspection program.
139.329
Pedestrians and Ground Vehicles.
139.331
Obstructions.
139.333
Protection of NAVAIDS.
139.335
Public protection.
139.337
Wildlife hazard management.
139.339
Airport condition reporting.
139.341
Identifying, marking, and lighting
construction and other unserviceable
areas.
139.343
Noncomplying conditions.
Subpart E—Airport Safety Management
System
139.401
General requirements.
139.402
Components of Airport Safety Man-
agement System.
139.403
Airport Safety Management System
implementation.
A
UTHORITY
: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 106(g), 40113,
44701–44706, 44709, 44719, 47175.
S
OURCE
: Docket No. FAA–2000–7479, 69 FR
6424, Feb. 10, 2004, unless otherwise noted.
E
DITORIAL
N
OTE
: Nomenclature changes to
part 139 appear at 69 FR 24069, May 3, 2004.
Subpart A—General
§ 139.1 Applicability.
(a) This part prescribes rules gov-
erning the certification and operation
of airports in any State of the United
States, the District of Columbia, or
any territory or possession of the
United States serving any—
(1) Scheduled passenger-carrying op-
erations of an air carrier operating air-
craft configured for more than 9 pas-
senger seats, as determined by the reg-
ulations under which the operation is
conducted or the aircraft type certifi-
cate issued by a competent civil avia-
tion authority; and
(2) Unscheduled passenger-carrying
operations of an air carrier operating
aircraft configured for at least 31 pas-
senger seats, as determined by the reg-
ulations under which the operation is
conducted or the aircraft type certifi-
cate issued by a competent civil avia-
tion authority.
(b) This part applies to those por-
tions of a joint-use or shared-use air-
port that are within the authority of a
person serving passenger-carrying op-
erations defined in paragraphs (a)(1)
and (a)(2) of this section.
(c) This part does not apply to—
(1) Airports serving scheduled air car-
rier operations only by reason of being
designated as an alternate airport;
(2) Airports operated by the United
States;
(3) Airports located in the State of
Alaska that only serve scheduled oper-
ations of small air carrier aircraft and
do not serve scheduled or unscheduled
operations of large air carrier aircraft;
(4) Airports located in the State of
Alaska during periods of time when not
serving operations of large air carrier
aircraft; or
(5) Heliports.
[Doc. No. FAA–2000–7479, 69 FR 6424, Feb. 10,
2004, as amended by Amdt. 139–27, 78 FR 3316,
Jan. 16, 2013]
§ 139.3 Delegation of authority.
The authority of the Administrator
to issue, deny, and revoke Airport Op-
erating Certificates is delegated to the
Associate Administrator for Airports,
Director of Airport Safety and Stand-
ards, and Regional Airports Division
Managers.
§ 139.5 Definitions.
The following are definitions of
terms used in this part:
Accountable executive
means an indi-
vidual designated by the certificate
holder to act on its behalf for the im-
plementation and maintenance of the
Airport Safety Management System.
The accountable executive has control
of the certificate holder’s human and
financial resources for operations con-
ducted under an Airport Operating Cer-
tificate. The accountable executive has
ultimate responsibility to the FAA, on
behalf of the certificate holder, for the
safety performance of operations con-
ducted under the certificate holder’s
Airport Operating Certificate.