Abandoned aircraft: An aircraft that has been left on the airport without the consent of the city and for which no aircraft parking fees have been received.

Air carrier (also airline): A business using the airport for the scheduled transport of passengers or goods and operating the business under the terms and conditions of FAR Part 121 or Part 135 per SFAR 38.5.

Air operations area (AOA): That area of the airport used or intended to be used for landing, takeoff or surface maneuvering of aircraft. The AOA includes the active runways, taxiways, and ramp areas. The AOA is considered part of the airport restricted area and is off-limits to the general public.

Aircraft (also airplane, balloon, blimp, ultralight, helicopter, light sport aircraft): Any device or contrivance now known or hereafter invented that is used or intended to be used for flight in the air.

Aircraft emergency: A problem or condition involving an aircraft in flight or on the ground that could endanger lives or property. An aircraft emergency can be declared by a pilot, air traffic control personnel or other employees responsible for the safe operation of aircraft on the airport.

Aircraft maintenance: The repair, adjustment or inspection of an aircraft by a pilot, owner or mechanic other than the routine cleaning, upkeep and servicing of an aircraft in preparation for flight. Minor repairs are characterized as normal, routine annual inspections with attendant maintenance, repair, calibration or adjustment or repair of aircraft and their accessories. Major repairs are characterized as major alterations to the airframe, power plant, propeller and accessories as defined in 14 CFR Part 43, Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, Rebuilding, and Alteration. For safety and liability purposes, aircraft maintenance must be accomplished in designated areas only. 14 CFR Part 43, and any future amendments to 14 CFR Part 43, are hereby incorporated by reference into this document.

Aircraft operation: An aircraft takeoff, landing, touch and go (considered two (2) operations), low approach and/or missed approach.

Aircraft operator: Any person who pilots, controls, owns or maintains an aircraft.

Aircraft parking and storage areas: Those hangar and apron locations of the airport designated by the airport manager for the parking and storage of aircraft. These areas include “tie-down” aprons equipped with rope or chain devices that are used to secure lightweight aircraft during windy conditions.

Aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF): The personnel, equipment and facilities on or off the airport dedicated to dealing with aircraft accidents/incidents and all rescue and firefighting tasks, structural fires and other firefighting emergency activities.

Airport: All the areas comprising the Show Low Regional Airport as it now exists, or as the same may hereafter be expanded and developed, and shall include all of its buildings, facilities and appurtenances.

Airport driver endorsement: The authority issued by the airport manager to a motor vehicle operator authorizing such motor vehicle operations within the airport operations area.

Airport manager: All references to the airport manager shall mean the actual airport manager or his designee(s) including airport UNICOM personnel. The term “airport manager,” as herein used, shall include persons duly designated to represent the airport manager and to act on behalf of the airport manager for the enforcement of these rules and regulations, to ensure the efficient, proper and safe operation of the airport, but only to the extent authorized by law or properly delegated by said airport manager.

Airport minimum standards: A separate document adopted and formally approved by the city council within which are detailed provisions outlining the minimum building size, performance or other standards acceptable by the city for a business firm aspiring to do business at the airport.

Airport property: All real estate and other material assets owned by the City of Show Low located at the airport.

Airport restricted area: See “Restricted area.”

Airport Rules and Regulations: A document adopted and formally approved by the city council in which are detailed provisions for the safe, orderly and efficient operation of the airport.

Airport security program: A program developed in accordance with TSAR Part 1542 and approved by the TSA outlining airport security requirements, methods and procedures for Show Low Regional Airport.

Airside: See “Air operations area.”

Apron (also ramp): Those areas designated by the airport, both public and private/leased, designated by the airport manager for the parking or storage of aircraft. These areas are usually restricted areas and involve activities such as enplaning and deplaning passengers, servicing aircraft and aircraft movements.

Based aircraft: Any aircraft whose home base or permanent residency is identified as the Show Low Regional Airport.

Cargo area or cargo ramp area: That area of the airport designated for acceptance and processing of air cargo.

Commercial aeronautical activity (also commercial operation/operator, aviation operator and aviation service operator): Commercial activity which relates to the operation or servicing of aircraft. Examples of such activity include charter operations, pilot training, aircraft rental and sightseeing, aerial photography, crop dusting, aerial advertising and surveying, air taxi operations, aircraft sales and services, sales of aviation petroleum products, repair and maintenance of aircraft parts.

Commercial operating agreement (COA): The legal agreement between the city and a commercial aviation business that authorizes the commercial aviation business the right to conduct business on the airport and identifies the conditions, rates and charges due the airport for that right.

Disabled aircraft: Any aircraft that is incapable of moving under its own power.

Emergency vehicles: Vehicles that are painted, marked, lighted and used by the police (or security officers), fire department (ARFF), ambulance or other airport officials to carry out their daily duties or used in response to an emergency situation.

Engine run-up areas: Areas designated by the airport manager that allow high power settings of an aircraft engine.

FAA: The Federal Aviation Administration.

FAR: The Federal Aviation Regulations as written, approved and published by the FAA.

Fixed base operator (FBO): An entity which maintains facilities at the airport for the purpose of conducting commercial aeronautical activities as outlined in the airport minimum standards. A full service FBO shall perform all services outlined in the minimum standards, including fueling of aircraft, while a specialized aviation service organization (SASO) may perform one (1) or more commercial aeronautical activities as outlined in the minimum standards, but not all services and not aircraft fueling.

Flying club: See “Commercial aeronautical activity.”

Fuel storage area (also fuel farm): Those facilities where AVGAS, Jet-A and other types of fuel are stored. These facilities must be in areas designated, inspected and approved by the airport manager and meeting minimum standards for the safe storage and handling of fuel.

General aviation: All categories and types of aviation/aircraft in the U.S. except for certified air carriers under FAR Part 121 or Part 135 and Department of Defense military aircraft.

Ground transportation: The business of transporting passengers, material, baggage or other goods, usually for a fee, either within the boundaries of the airport or to/from the airport and other locations outside the airport boundaries. Ground transportation includes activities such as rental cars, taxicabs, buses, trains, courtesy vehicles and lodging shuttle service.

Hangar: Any fully or partially enclosed storage space for an aircraft.

Hazardous material: A substance or material in a quantity or form that may pose an unreasonable risk to health or safety, or property, when stored, transported or used in commerce as defined in applicable federal, state, and local environmental laws.

Landside: The general public common use areas of the airport such as public roadways, public parking lots, nonrestricted areas of the passenger terminal and the air cargo terminal and other public access nonrestricted areas of commercial businesses located on the airport. “Landside” includes all those areas of the airport that are not defined as the AOA or otherwise fenced, posted or controlled as restricted areas.

Lease: A contract granting occupation or use of airport property during a certain period in exchange for a specified rent.

Master plan: The airport master plan includes the official concept of the ultimate development of the airport. It presents the research and logic from which the plan evolved and displays the plan in written and graphic forms. It typically presents schedules of proposed development in the zero (0) to five (5) year, six (6) to ten (10) year, and eleven (11) to twenty (20) year time periods.

Movement area: Those areas of the airport under the control of the Show Low Regional Airport including runways, taxiways and helipads designated and made available for the landing, takeoff and taxiing of aircraft.

NFPA: National Fire Protection Association.

Nonmovement area: Those areas of the airport under the control of the Show Low Regional Airport that are not available for the landing, takeoff or taxiing of aircraft.

Notice to Airmen (NOTAM): Information issued by the airport manager, designee, or FAA, advising pilots of temporary changes to published information regarding airport facilities, conditions or other items that may affect safe flight or aircraft operations.

NTSB: National Transportation Safety Board.

Parking: The standing of an aircraft or vehicle whether occupied or not.

Parking areas: Those areas designated as vehicle parking areas for passengers, other customers, employees and ground transportation staging areas (rental cars, taxicabs, buses and shuttles). Some of these areas are also restricted areas. Most of these areas require payment of fees for the privilege to park a motor vehicle.

Passenger: Enplaned or originating passengers are those persons boarding an aircraft for flight from the airport. Deplaned or destination passengers are those persons off-loaded or leaving an aircraft for surface transportation from the airport. Connecting or through passengers are both enplaning and deplaning at your airport within the same half of their trip, usually without leaving the airport. The sum of all passengers is “processed” passengers, a critical statistic when determining airport capacity and facility needs.

Permit: A written authorization issued by the airport manager that allows specific activities or the temporary use or occupancy of certain areas or facilities at the airport.

Person: An individual, entity, firm, general or limited partnership, corporation, company, limited liability partnership, trust, association or any trustee, receiver, assignee or similar representative thereof leasing, subleasing, making application for or using any land or facility at the airport.

Public use areas: Those areas normally used by the general public. These areas include concessionaire shops, restrooms, passenger terminal lobbies, passenger concourses, hallways, passageways, public transportation waiting areas, viewing areas, roads, sidewalks and public motor vehicle parking lots. They do not include areas leased by commercial aviation businesses unless those businesses so designate certain areas as public use areas. They do not include the AOA, restricted areas and employee parking lots.

Ramp: See “Apron.”

Restricted area: All areas of the airport within the fenced and gated perimeter of the airport including all buildings or structures integral to the fence through which access to the aircraft operations area could be gained.

Runway: An area of the airport developed and improved for the purpose of accommodating the landing and takeoff of aircraft.

Secured area: That portion of the airport where aircraft operators that have a security program under 49 CFR Part 1544 or 1546 enplane and deplane passengers and sort and load baggage and any adjacent areas that are not separated by adequate security measures.

Special events: Includes air shows, balloon festivals, air races, fly-ins, parachute team demonstrations, static displays for the public, aerobatic events, filming for television, movies or commercials, and other events or activities not normally associated with the daily operation of Show Low Regional Airport.

Sterile area: That portion of the airport defined in the airport security program that provides passengers access to boarding aircraft and to which that access generally is controlled by TSA, or by an aircraft operator under 49 CFR Chapter XII, Part 1544, through the screening of persons and property.

Tie-down area: See “Aircraft parking and storage area.”

Transient aircraft: Any aircraft not “home-based” at the airport but transiting the airport, obtaining fuel service or other service at the airport, or on-loading or off-loading passengers or cargo. Itinerant aircraft are “home-based” elsewhere but may park or hangar at the airport for short periods of time.

TSA: The Transportation Security Administration.

UNICOM: A communications facility for North American airports with a low volume of general aviation traffic and where no control tower is presently active. Also known as a Common Traffic Advisory Facility (CTAF).

UNICOM office: The Show Low Regional Airport’s administrative and operations offices and personnel responsible for the maintenance and operation of the airport.

Vehicle: All conveyances, except aircraft. (Ord. No. 2008-02, § 1, 3-4-08. 1976 Code § 16-3-10)