(Consider using the office Safety Program Manager to contact fixed base operators.) (1) Provide the following information to all flight schools and fixed base operators within the jurisdiction of each Flight Standards District Office. This notice applies to principal inspectors of flight schools and other aviation safety inspectors who have surveillance responsibility for fixed base operators. This notice is distributed electronically to all Flight Standards District Offices.

The accident is still under investigation and has raised concerns among the public and federal law enforcement organizations about the security of general aviation and how that can be improved.įlight Standards is working with general aviation organizations such as the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, the Experimental Aircraft Association, the National Air Transportation Association, the National Association of Flight Instructors, and the National Business Aviation Association, among others, to encourage the adoption of these or similar recommendations. There was no fire, and the student was the only fatality. There was damage to the building, but no one inside the building or on the ground was injured by the crash itself or by falling debris. The student pilot took off without clearance, traversed military airspace without permission, and crashed into a 42-story building in downtown Tampa, Florida. On January 5, 2002, a 15-year old student pilot took an aircraft without authorization from the flight school where he had been taking flying lessons. Information similar to that to be provided to flight schools and training centers regarding foreign applicants will be mailed to all certificated flight instructors in the country, once the process and information have been finalized. The Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service are outlining the process and the details on the information to be provided, and once this is finalized, the process will be provided to flight schools and training centers. This legislation required flight schools and training centers to advise the Attorney General of any foreign applicants for flight instruction and to provide the Attorney General specific information on these foreign applicants. Inspectors have received N 8700.11, Flight School and Training Center Requirements Under the Aviation and Transportation Security Act, dated December 17, 2001, with the requirement to advise flight schools and training centers of the requirements of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act. The security guidance included direction to contact local law enforcement to verify procedures to report suspicious persons or activities at the airfield report promptly information indicating possible criminal activity to local law enforcement and distribute security guidance to all organizations on the public use airport. In October 2001, the FAA's Office of Airports sent security guidance to all public use airport and airfield owners and operators.

The information contained in this notice is provided to aviation safety inspectors to allow them to assist flight schools and fixed base operators in enhancing security in and around general aviation airports and aircraft parking areas. Suggestions for enhanced security for flight schools and fixed base operators

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