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Commercial air tour safety requirements program (Part 136 subpart A)

Operator program · 14 CFR 136.5-136.13

When you need it

Air tours

What the FAA does with it

None: the FAA checks compliance during surveillance, submitted by Kept in your company records (not submitted to the FAA).

What you'll need to provide

Your tour aircraft and routes, passenger briefing method, over-water operations, life preservers and floats, and how you record rotorcraft performance plans

What the FSDO looks for

Inspectors evaluate submissions using FAA Order 8900.1 guidance and, for certificate holders, SAS Data Collection Tools.

• 8900.1: V3 C18 S3 Part A Operations Specifications: General (CHG 1021, Current)
• Advisory Circulars: AC 136-1
• DCTs: none mapped

Common reasons submissions are returned

• Aircraft data (make, model, serial, N-number) inconsistent across the application, the document and the registration certificate
• Outdated revision of a referenced AC, MMEL or template
• Missing signatures, dates or revision control on each page
• Missing required attachments: Your tour aircraft and routes, passenger briefing method, over-water operations, life preservers and floats, and how you record rotorcraft performance plans
• Submitting to the wrong office or by the wrong method (expected: Kept in your company records (not submitted to the FAA))

General issues drawn from the requirements above, not statistics.

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Sources: the regulations, ACs and 8900.1 sections listed above (public FAA documents). Guides explain requirements; they are not the document and not legal advice.

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