Fri, Dec 29, 2006
GA Now Has 17 Choices For Access To Regan Washington
National
The Transportation
Security Administration (TSA) announced yesterday it has named
Dulled International Airport (IAD) as its newest gateway airport
allowing certain pre-cleared general aviation (GA) operations,
including corporate aircraft, charter flights, and on-demand
operations, to fly directly into Ronald Reagan Washington National
Airport (DCA). Operators may apply to begin general aviation
flights from IAD into DCA.
Under current TSA rules, GA flights into DCA must arrive from
one of 17 gateway airports after crew and pax screening.
"We are being responsive to the aviation industry by adding
Dulles as a gateway to DCA," said John Sammon, TSA's Assistant
Administrator of Transportation Sector Network Management. "This
provides operators much greater flexibility when traveling to the
nation's capital while underlining TSA's commitment to maintain the
highest levels of security while allowing for the free flow of
commerce."
This is the latest update to TSA's access program started in
July 2005. Along with the "temporary" permanent Washington Air
Defense Identification Zone, the rules limit the number of GA
flights per day into DCA to 48. TSA says the rules "...[address]
the unique aviation security needs in the national capitol region
by requiring all aircraft to meet standards set by TSA."
Those measures still include:
- Advanced registration and qualification of operators and crews
seeking to operate at DCA
- TSA inspection of crew and passengers
- TSA inspection of property (accessible and checked) and
aircraft
- Identification checks of passengers by TSA
- Submission of passenger and crew manifests 24 hours in advance
of flight
- Enhanced background checks for all passengers and a
fingerprint-based criminal history records check for flight
crew
- An armed security officer on board each flight, authorized to
use force
- All operations subject to cancellation at any time
- Increases in the national Threat Level in the Washington, D.C.
area or in the vicinity of the gateway airports, will require all
general aviation operations into and out of DCA to cease
In addition to Dulles, Dallas/Love Field; Memphis, Tenn.;
Milwaukee's General Mitchell; Seattle-Tacoma, Wash.; Boston Logan;
Houston Hobby; White Plains, N.Y.; LaGuardia, N.Y.; Chicago Midway;
Minneapolis/St.Paul; West Palm Beach, Fla.; San Francisco;
Teterboro Airport, N.J.; Philadelphia; Lexington, Ky.; and Port
Columbus, Ohio all serve as gateway airports.
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