Flight Program Operations (AJF) manages the FAA Flight Program. AJF holds a part 135 air operator certificate and a part 145 repair station certificate, and a part 5 Safety Management System, which incorporates both certificates. AJF is responsible for all agency flight operations, manned and unmanned, and all aspects of FAA Flight Program safety, administration, operations, training, and maintenance. The service unit operates a fleet of FAA-owned aircraft at eight facilities across the country. AJF establishes standards for the operation of all agency owned aircraft, as well as aircraft/aircraft services acquired commercially. 

What We Do

The service unit’s core business is safe flight operations and the efficient execution of its mission set:

• Aviation Safety Training Services: Provides training and currency/proficiency services to Aviation Safety (AVS) aviation safety inspectors and flight test personnel. These AVS participants require AJF services to become or remain qualified and/or current to perform their primary job duties in a proponent/applicant aircraft.
• Flight Inspection: Ensures the integrity of instrument approaches and airway procedures of the National Airspace System (NAS) infrastructure and meets the agency's international commitments. AJF accomplishes this mission through the airborne inspection of all space and ground-based instrument flight procedures and the validation of electronic signals in space transmitted from ground navigation systems. AJF also performs inspections of Department of Defense navigational facilities designated as essential to the defense of the United States, both foreign and domestic.
• Research, Development, Test & Evaluation Support: Conducts flights supporting research, development, test and evaluation of new electronic aids, air traffic procedures, aircraft improvement, and aviation medical research. AJF executes testing and evaluation of the air traffic control system, NAS systems (e.g., investigation of radio frequency interference problems), personnel, aircraft, equipment, and procedures. This work also includes 5G deployment modeling, identification, and mitigation.
• Critical Event Response/Transportation: Provides transportation required to accomplish official FAA responsibilities in times of emergency or disaster (hurricane response), as well as support the National Transportation Safety Board in carrying out its duties. AJF also serves the transportation needs of the Department of Transportation, including FAA senior executives, and other federal agencies under reimbursable agreements.    

Flight Inspection Reimbursable Agreement Requests

If you have an existing FAA reimbursable agreement, include your flight inspection requirements within that agreement. Use this process to initiate a new reimbursable agreement for flight inspection support. 

The information required for submitting a request for a flight inspection reimbursable agreement can be found in the Flight Inspection Reimbursable Agreement Checklist. Provide the information in the checklist via email to: 9-AJO-AJF-4100ReimAgrRequest@faa.gov

Address
FAA National Headquarters
800 Independence Ave., SW
Orville Wright Bldg. (FOB10A)
Suite 1028
Washington, DC 20591
Phone: (202) 267-0523