Federal Cooperation in Development of Airports: Hearings Before a Subcommittee ... Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session, on S. 3620, a Bill to Provide for Federal Cooperation with the States in the Development of Aircraft Landing Areas Adequate to Provide for the National Defense, the Postal Service, and for Civil Aeronautics. May 20 and 29, 1940U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940 - 87 pages |
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Page 6 - Air navigation facility" means any facility used in, available for use in, or designed for use in, aid of air navigation, including landing areas, lights, any apparatus or equipment for disseminating weather information, for signaling, for radio-directional finding, or for radio or other electrical communication, and any other structure or mechanism having a similar purpose for guiding or controlling flight in the air or the landing and take-off of aircraft. (8) "Airport" means a landing area used...
Page 84 - Civil airway" means a path through the navigable air space of the United States, identified by an area on the surface of the earth, designated or approved by the Administrator as suitable for interstate, overseas, or foreign air commerce.
Page 86 - Landing area" means any locality, either of land or water, including airports and intermediate landing fields, which is used, or intended to be used, for the landing and take-off of aircraft, whether or not facilities are provided for the shelter, servicing, or repair of aircraft, or for receiving or discharging passengers or cargo. (23) "Mail" means United States mail and foreign-transit mail.
Page 30 - The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to designate and establish civil airways and, within the limits of available appropriations hereafter made by the Congress, (1) to establish, operate, and maintain along such airways all necessary air navigation facilities except airports...
Page 6 - ... publication of maps of such airways, utilizing the facilities and assistance of existing agencies of the Government so far as practicable...
Page 2 - The determination of need shall include among other things a consideration of the proportion which the population of each State bears to the total population of the United States...
Page 27 - Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the United States...
Page 6 - SEC. 302. (a) The Administrator is empowered to designate and establish civil airways and, within the limits of available appropriations made by the Congress, (1) to acquire, establish, operate, and maintain along such airways all necessary air navigation facilities...
Page 48 - The development and maintenance of an adequate system of airports and seaplane bases should be recognized in principle as a matter of national concern.
Page 47 - The Authority shall, through the Administrator, make a field survey of the existing system of airports and shall present to the Congress not later than February 1, 1939, definite recommendations (1) as to whether the Federal Government should participate in the construction, improvement, development, operation, or maintenance of a national system of airports, and (2) if Federal participation is recommended, the extent to which, and the manner in which, the Federal Government shall so participate.