Rule2024-31237
Accepted Means of Compliance for Small Unmanned Aircraft Category 3 Operations Over Human Beings; Wingtra AG
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Published
December 30, 2024
Effective
December 30, 2024
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentFederal Aviation Administration
Abstract
This document announces the acceptance of a means of compliance with FAA regulations for small unmanned aircraft (sUA) Category 3 operations over human beings. The Administrator finds that Wingtra AG's "Proposed Means of Compliance for Operations Over People (OOP)," dated April 30, 2024, provides an acceptable means, but not the only means, of showing compliance with FAA regulations.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 249 (Monday, December 30, 2024)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 106308]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-31237]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
14 CFR Part 107
[Docket No. FAA-2024-1975]
Accepted Means of Compliance for Small Unmanned Aircraft Category
3 Operations Over Human Beings; Wingtra AG
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: This document announces the acceptance of a means of
compliance with FAA regulations for small unmanned aircraft (sUA)
Category 3 operations over human beings. The Administrator finds that
Wingtra AG's ``Proposed Means of Compliance for Operations Over People
(OOP),'' dated April 30, 2024, provides an acceptable means, but not
the only means, of showing compliance with FAA regulations.
DATES: Effective December 30, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
FAA Contact: Kimberly Luu, Cabin Safety Section, AIR-624, Technical
Policy Branch, Policy and Standards Division, Aircraft Certification
Service, Federal Aviation Administration, 2200 South 216th Street, Des
Moines, Washington 98198; telephone and fax 206-231-3414; email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a4efcdc9c6c1d6c8dd8aec8ae8d1d1e4c2c5c58ac3cbd2"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="410a282c2324332d386f096f0d3434012720206f262e37">[email protected]</span></a> (mail to: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d398babeb1b6a1bfaafd9bfd9fa6a693b5b2b2fdb4bca5"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e9a280848b8c9b8590c7a1c7a59c9ca98f8888c78e869f">[email protected]</span></a>).
Wingtra AG Contact: Armin Ambuehl, CTO, Giessh[uuml]belstrasse 40,
8045 Zurich, Switzerland, +41 799032851; <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f9919c959596b98e90979e8d8b98d79a9694"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a1c9c4cdcdcee1d6c8cfc6d5d3c08fc2cecc">[email protected]</span></a> (mail to:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#7a121f1616153a0d13141d0e081b54191517"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2d45484141426d5a44434a595f4c034e4240">[email protected]</span></a>).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, part 107, subpart D,
prescribes the eligibility and operating requirements for civil sUA to
operate over human beings in the United States. To be eligible for use,
the sUA must meet the requirements of Sec. 107.130(a) for Category 3
operations. These sections require the sUA to be designed, produced, or
modified such that it will not cause injury to a human being above a
specified severity limit, does not contain any exposed rotating parts
that would lacerate human skin, and does not contain any safety
defects. Section 107.155 requires that means of compliance with Sec.
107.130(a) be established and FAA-accepted. Section 107.160 requires an
applicant to declare that sUA for Category 3 operations meet an FAA-
accepted means of compliance.
Means of Compliance Accepted
This notification of availability serves as a formal acceptance by
the FAA of Wingtra AG's ``Proposed Means of Compliance for Operations
Over People (OOP),'' dated April 30, 2024, as an acceptable means of
compliance, but not the only means of compliance with Sec. 107.130(a)
for Category 3 operations. Applicants may also propose alternative
means of compliance for FAA review and possible acceptance.
Revisions
Revisions to Wingtra AG's ``Proposed Means of Compliance for
Operations Over People (OOP),'' dated April 30, 2024, will not be
automatically accepted, and will require further FAA acceptance for any
revisions to be considered as an accepted means of compliance.
Issued in Kansas City, Missouri, on December 20, 2024.
Patrick R. Mullen,
Manager, Technical Policy Branch, Policy and Standards Division,
Aircraft Certification Service.
[FR Doc. 2024-31237 Filed 12-27-24; 8:45 am]
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