[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 5]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 14CFR1204.1401]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

                          SPACE ADMINISTRATION

 

PART 1204_ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY AND POLICY--Table of Contents

 

Subpart 14_Use of NASA Airfield Facilities by Aircraft Not Operated for 

                  the Benefit of the Federal Government

 

Sec. 1204.1401  Definitions.



    For the purpose of this subpart, the following definitions apply:

    (a) NASA Airfield Facility. Those aeronautical facilities owned and 

operated by NASA that consist of the following:

    (1) Shuttle Landing Facility. The aeronautical facility which is a 

part of the John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Kennedy Space Center, 

Florida, and is located at 80[deg]41[min] west longitude and 

28[deg]37[min] north latitude.

    (2) Wallops Airport. The aeronautical facility which is part of the 

Wallops Flight Facility (WFF), Wallops Island, VA, and is located at 

75[deg]28[min] west longitude and 37[deg]56[min] north latitude in the 

general vicinity of Chincoteague, Virginia.

    (3) Moffett Federal Airfield (MFA). The aeronautical facility which 

is part of the Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, and is 

located at 122[deg]03[min] west longitude and 37[deg]25[min] north 

latitude.

    (4) Crows Landing Airport. The aeronautical facility which is a part 

of the Crows Landing Flight Facility (CLEF) and is located at 

121[deg]06[min] west longitude and 37[deg]25[min] north latitude, 45 

miles east of the Ames Research Center.

    (b) Aircraft not Operated for the Benefit of the Federal Government. 

Aircraft which are not owned or leased by the United States Government 

or aircraft carrying crew members or passengers who do not have official 

business requiring the use of a NASA airfield facility in the particular 

circumstance in question.

    (c) Official Business. Business, in the interest of the U.S. 

Government, which



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personnel aboard an aircraft must transact with U.S. Government 

personnel or organizations at or near a NASA facility. The use of a NASA 

airfield facility by transient aircraft to petition for U.S. Government 

business or to obtain clearance, servicing, or other items pertaining to 

itinerant operations is not considered official business.

    (d) User. An individual partnership or corporation owning, 

operating, or using an aircraft not operated for the benefit of the 

Federal Government in whose name permission to use a NASA airfield 

facility is to be requested and granted.

    (e) Hold Harmless Agreement. An agreement executed by the user by 

which the user acknowledges awareness of the conditions of the 

permission to use a NASA airfield facility, assumes any risks connected 

therewith, and releases the U.S. Government from all liability incurred 

by the use of such facility.

    (f) Use Permit. The written permission signed by the authorized 

approving official to land, take off, and otherwise use a NASA airfield 

facility. Such use permit may be issued for single or multiple 

occasions. The specific terms of the use permit and the provisions of 

this subpart govern the use which may be made of the airport by aircraft 

not operated for the benefit for the Federal Government.

    (g) Certificate of Insurance. A certificate signed by an authorized 

insurance company representative (or a facsimile of an insurance policy) 

evidencing that insurance is then in force with respect to any aircraft 

not operated for the benefit of the Federal Government, the user of 

which is requesting permission to use a NASA airfield facility (see 

Sec. 1204.1404(b)).



[56 FR 35812, July 29, 1991, as amended at 60 FR 37567, July 21, 1995]