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14 CFR Ch. I (1–1–24 Edition) 

§ 153.5 

Air Operations Area (AOA) 

means a 

portion of an airport, specified in the 
airport security program, in which se-
curity measures specified in Title 49 of 
the Code of Federal Regulations are 
carried out. This area includes aircraft 
movement areas, aircraft parking 
areas, loading ramps, and safety areas, 
for use by aircraft regulated under 49 
CFR parts 1542, 1544, and 1546, and any 
adjacent areas (such as general avia-
tion areas) that are not separated by 
adequate security systems, measures, 
or procedures. This area does not in-
clude the secured area. 

Airport 

means any public-use airport, 

including heliports, as defined in 49 
U.S.C. 47102, including: 

(1) A public airport; or 
(2) A privately-owned airport used or 

intended to be used for public purposes 
that is— 

(i) A reliever airport; or 
(ii) Determined by the Secretary to 

have at least 2,500 passenger boardings 
each year and to receive scheduled pas-
senger aircraft service. 

Aviation Safety Inspector 

means a 

properly credentialed individual who 
bears FAA Form 110A and is authorized 
under the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 40113 
to perform inspections and investiga-
tions. 

FAA Form 110A 

means the credentials 

issued to qualified Aviation Safety In-
spectors by the FAA for use in the per-
formance of official duties. 

Secured area 

means a portion of an 

airport, specified in the airport secu-
rity program, in which certain security 
measures specified in Title 49 of the 
Code of Federal Regulations are car-
ried out. This area is where aircraft op-
erators and foreign air carriers that 
have a security program under 49 CFR 
part 1544 or part 1546 enplane and 
deplane passengers and sort and load 
baggage and any adjacent areas that 
are not separated by adequate security 
systems, measures, or procedures. 

Security Identification Display Area 

(SIDA) 

means a portion of an airport, 

specified in the airport security pro-
gram, in which security measures spec-
ified in Title 49 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations are carried out. This area 
includes the secured area and may in-
clude other areas of the airport. 

§ 153.5 Aviation safety inspector air-

port access. 

Airports, aircraft operators, aircraft 

owners, airport tenants, and air agen-
cies must grant Aviation Safety In-
spectors bearing FAA Form 110A free 
and uninterrupted access to public-use 
airports and facilities, including AOAs, 
SIDAs, and other secured and re-
stricted areas. Aviation Safety Inspec-
tors displaying FAA Form 110A do not 
require access media or identification 
media issued or approved by an airport 
operator or aircraft operator in order 
to inspect or test compliance, or per-
form other such duties as the FAA may 
direct. 

Subpart B 

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Reserved

] 

PART 155—RELEASE OF AIRPORT 

PROPERTY FROM SURPLUS PROP-
ERTY DISPOSAL RESTRICTIONS 

Sec. 
155.1

Applicability. 

155.3

Applicable law. 

155.5

Property and releases covered by this 

part. 

155.7

General policies. 

155.9

Release from war or national emer-

gency restrictions. 

155.11

Form and content of requests for re-

lease. 

155.13

Determinations by FAA. 

A

UTHORITY

: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40113, 47151– 

47153. 

S

OURCE

: Docket No. 1329, 27 FR 12361, Dec. 

13, 1962, unless otherwise noted. 

§ 155.1 Applicability. 

This part applies to releases from 

terms, conditions, reservations, or re-
strictions in any deed, surrender of 
leasehold, or other instrument of 
transfer or conveyance (in this part 
called ‘‘instrument of disposal’’) by 
which some right, title, or interest of 
the United States in real or personal 
property was conveyed to a non-Fed-
eral public agency under section 13 of 
the Surplus Property Act of 1944 (58 
Stat. 765; 61 Stat. 678) to be used by 
that agency in developing, improving, 
operating, or maintaining a public air-
port or to provide a source of revenue 
from non-aviation business at a public 
airport.