Provides detailed guidance about developing and implementing SMS on an airport. Explains how SMS will help airports develop an explicit, pro-active, and engaged process for identifying and quantifying potential hazards and risks and for managing them in a systematically coherent, logical, and reasonable way.

• Industry Letter for Draft AC 150/5200-37A (PDF, 196 KB)

Establishes uniform standards for the siting and designation of parachute landing areas.

We will incorporate the final version of Change 19 to the current Airport Design AC, AC 150/5300-13, into the final version of AC 150/5300-13A, which we plan to publish by September 30, 2012.

• Industry Letter for Change 19 to AC 150/5300-13 (PDF, 158 KB)
• Comment Matrix for Change 19 (MS Word, 89 KB)
• Development of Criteria for Parachute Landing Areas on Airports, DOT/FAA/AR-11/30 (PDF, 578 KB)
• AIDS Brief Report-Skydiving (PDF, 132 KB)
• ASRS Brief Report-Skydiving (PDF, 142 KB)
• NTSB Brief Report-Skydiving (PDF, 154 KB)

Provides guidance on airport terminal and landside wayfinding, signing, and graphics. This draft is a substantial rewrite. It incorporates the recommendations and guidelines developed under Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 52, Wayfinding and Signing Guidelines for Airport Terminals and Landside, completed in 2011.

• Industry Letter for Draft AC 150/5360-12F (PDF, 209 KB)
• Comments Matrix for Draft AC 150/5360-12F (MS Word, 83 KB)
• Comments Matrix for Draft AC 150/5360-12F (MS Excel, 61 KB)

Contains the specifications for airport light bases, transformer housings, junction boxes, and accessories. This AC is not intended to be a compilation of currently available product designs. Instead, it provides the basic standard requirements for critical dimensions and performance requirements to which all manufacturers must demonstrate compliance.

This draft prohibits exothermic welds on galvanized steel light bases, introduces coated steel fasteners per Engineering Brief 83, updates the torque test for L-868 light bases, and updates websites and documents listed in Section 2. See Paragraph 5, Principal Changes, for a complete list of changes in this draft.

• Industry Letter for Draft AC 150/5345-42G (PDF, 176 KB)

Contains specifications and guidance for the storage, handling, and dispensing of aviation fuel on airports as well as standards and guidance for the training of personnel who conduct these activities.

• Addendum to Draft AC 150/5230-4B (PDF, 196 KB)
• Industry Letter for Draft AC 150/5230-4B (PDF, 86 KB)

Provides general guidance and information for airport authorities in the collection and management of data describing the physical infrastructure, characteristics, and services of their airport. Describes new process allowing airport operators to manage their data within the FAA’s Airports Geographic Information System (Airports GIS). Also describes how and when airports are inspected to ensure conformance with standards and applicability and currency of the published airport data.

Final document will cancel AC 150/5200-35A, Submitting the Airport Master Record in Order to Activate a New Airport.

• Industry Letter for Draft AC 150/5300-19 (PDF, 158 KB)