This AC provides standards, specifications, and guidance for designing aircraft deicing facilities.

• Industry Letter for Draft AC 150/5300-14C (PDF, 238 KB)
• Industry Comments Matrix for Draft AC 150/5300-14C (MS Word, 84 KB)

This AC provides guidance to assist operators in planning, designing, and constructing seaplane bases and associated facilities.

• Industry Letter for Draft AC 150/5395-1A (PDF, 132 KB)
• Comment Matrix for Draft AC 150/5395-1A (MS Word, 84 KB)

This AC contains a specification for wind cone assemblies to be used to provide wind information to pilots.

• Industry Letter for Draft AC 150/5345-27E (PDF, 130 KB)
• Industry Comments Matrix for Draft AC 150/5345-27E (MS Word, 83 KB)

This AC sets forth standards for a system of airport marking consisting of certain pilot aids and traffic control devices.

• Industry Letter for AC 150/5340-5D (PDF, 122 KB)

This AC provides guidance about the design and construction of airport surface storm drainage systems and subsurface drainage systems for paved runways, taxiways, and aprons. Among the topics it addresses are grading, erosion and sediment control, underdrains, water quality and quantity control, and storm sewers.

• Industry Letter for Draft AC 150/5320-5D (PDF, 344 KB)
• Comment Matrix for Draft AC 150/5320-5D (MS Word, 163 KB)

This AC describes the specifications for L-824 underground electrical cable for airport lighting circuits. The draft replaces FAA Standard 013, Quality Control Program Requirements, with ANSI/ISO 9001, Quality Management Systems - Requirements.

• Industry Letter for Draft AC 150/5345-7F (Updated to include submission instructions) (PDF, 137 KB)

This AC explains the importance of reporting collisions between aircraft and wildlife, more commonly referred to as wildlife strikes. It also examines recent improvements in the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Bird/Other Wildlife Strike Reporting system; how to report a wildlife strike; what happens to the wildlife strike report data; how to access the FAA National Wildlife Strike Database (NWSD); and the FAA’s Feather Identification program.

• Industry Letter for Draft AC 150/5200-32B (PDF, 135 KB)

Provides guidance on certain land uses that have the potential to attract hazardous wildlife on or near public-use airports. It also discusses airport development projects (including airport construction, expansion, and renovation) affecting aircraft movement near hazardous wildlife attractants.

• Industry Letter for Draft AC 150/5200-33C (PDF, 73 KB)

This AC defines the minimum acceptable standards for the conduct and preparation of Wildlife Hazard Site Visits (Site Visit), Wildlife Hazard Assessments (Assessments) and Wildlife Hazard Management Plans (Plans). This AC provides guidelines that define when a Site Visit should be conducted and when an Assessment must be conducted. It also defines minimum standards for conducting Site Visits and Assessments, as well as developing Plans. The AC further defines and explains continual monitoring programs. This AC also provides checklists to help people evaluate Site Visits, Assessments and Plans.

• Industry Letter for Draft AC 150/ 5200- Protocol for the Conduct and Review of Wildlife Hazard Site Visits, Wildlife Hazard Assessments, and Wildlife Hazard Management Plans (PDF, 69 KB)

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)

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)