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New security regs take shape

Under the first major rulemaking of the DOT’s newly created Transportation Security Administration, scheduled for publication February 22, charter operatio

By AIN Staff • AIN Staff

March 26, 2008

Under the first major rulemaking of the DOT’s newly created Transportation Security Administration, scheduled for publication February 22, charter operations in Part 25 aircraft face a slew of new security regulations when passengers or crew are enplaning or deplaning in an airport’s “sterile” area (generally, the airline ramp or terminal and its gates).

The most daunting of the requirements include employee background checks that require a fingerprint-based criminal history record check of “pilots, flight
engineers or flight navigators.” (Apparently flight attendants are exempted.) Affected operators have until December 6 to comply with the fingerprint rule.
Although the new rules do not require reinforced cockpit doors, they do extend to air-taxi aircraft the same restricted flight deck access rules that currently apply to Part 121 operations.

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