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treaties. This part also contains stand- of flights, primarily along national or ards and procedures concerning mar- international civil air routes.(RR) keting of radio frequency devices, and Aeronautical Mobile-Satellite Service. A for obtaining equipment authorization. mobile-satellite service in which mo- (d) Part 13 contains information and bile earth stations are located on board rules for the licensing of commercial . radio operators. Aeronautical mobile service. A mobile (e) Part 17 contains requirements for service between aeronautical stations construction, marking and lighting of and aircraft stations, or between air- antenna towers. craft stations, in which survival craft (f) Part 80 contains rules for the mar- stations may also participate; emer- itime services. Certain maritime fre- gency position-indicating radiobeacon quencies are available for use by air- stations may also participate in this craft stations for distress and safety, service on designated distress and public correspondence and operational emergency frequencies. communications. Aeronautical multicom station. An § 87.5 Definitions. used to provide communications to conduct the activi- Aeronautical advisory station (unicom). An aeronautical station used for advi- ties being performed by, or directed sory and civil defense communications from, private aircraft. primarily with private aircraft sta- Aeronautical radionavigation service. A tions. radionavigation service intended for Aeronautical enroute station. An aero- the benefit and for the safe operation nautical station which communicates of aircraft. with aircraft stations in flight status Aeronautical search and rescue station. or with other aeronautical enroute sta- An aeronautical station for commu- tions. nication with aircraft and other aero- Aeronautical fixed service. A nautical search and rescue stations radiocommunication service between pertaining to search and rescue activi- specified fixed points provided pri- ties with aircraft. marily for the safety of air navigation Aeronautical station. A in and for the regular, efficient and eco- the aeronautical mobile service. In cer- nomical operation of air transport. A tain instances an aeronautical station station in this service is an aero- may be located, for example, on board nautical . ship or on a platform at sea. Aeronautical Mobile Off-Route (OR) Aeronautical utility mobile station. A Service. An aeronautical mobile service mobile station used on airports for intended for communications, includ- communications relating to vehicular ing those relating to flight coordina- ground traffic. tion, primarily outside national or Air carrier . A mobile international civil air routes.(RR) station on board an aircraft which is Aeronautical Mobile Route (R) Service. engaged in, or essential to, the trans- An aeronautical mobile service re- portation of passengers or cargo for served for communications relating to hire. safety and regularity of flight, pri- marily along national or international (AES). A mobile civil air routes.(RR) earth station in the aeronautical mo- Aeronautical Mobile-Satellite Off-Route bile-satellite service located on board (OR) Service. An aeronautical mobile- an aircraft. satellite service intended for commu- Aircraft station. A mobile station in nications, including those relating to the aeronautical mobile service other flight coordination, primarily outside than a , located national and international civil air on board an aircraft. routes.(RR) Airport. An area of land or water that Aeronautical Mobile-Satellite Route (R) is used or intended to be used for the Service. An aeronautical mobile-sat- landing and takeoff of aircraft, and in- ellite service reserved for communica- cludes its buildings and facilities, if tions relating to safety and regularity any.

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Airport control tower (control tower) cally that is used as an alerting and lo- station. An aeronautical station pro- cating aid for survival purposes. viding communication between a con- Emergency locator (ELT) trol tower and aircraft. test station. A land station used for Automatic dependent surveillance— testing ELTs or for training in the use broadcast (ADS–B) Service. Broadcast of ELTs. transmissions from aircraft, supporting Expendable Launch Vehicle (ELV). A aircraft-to-aircraft or aircraft-to- booster rocket that can be used only ground surveillance applications, in- once to launch a payload, such as a cluding position reports, velocity vec- missile or space vehicle. tor, intent and other relevant informa- Flight Information Service-Broadcast tion about the aircraft. (FIS-B). A broadcast service provided Automatic terminal information service- for the purpose of giving advice and in- broadcast (ATIS-B). The automatic pro- formation useful for the safe and effi- vision of current, routine information cient conduct of flights. to arriving and departing aircraft Flight test aircraft station. An aircraft throughout a 24-hour period or a speci- station used in the testing of aircraft fied portion thereof. or their major components. Automatic weather observation station Flight test land station. An aero- (AWOS) or automatic surface observation nautical station used in the testing of A land station located station (ASOS). aircraft or their major components. at an airport and used to automati- Glide path station. A radionavigation cally transmit weather information to land station which provides vertical aircraft. guidance to aircraft during approach to Aviation service organization. Any landing. business firm which maintains facili- ties at an airport for the purposes of Instrument landing system (ILS). A one or more of the following general radionavigation system which provides aviation activities: (a) Aircraft fueling; aircraft with horizontal and vertical (b) aircraft services (e.g. parking, stor- guidance just before and during landing age, tie-downs); (c) aircraft mainte- and, at certain fixed points, indicates nance or sales; (d) electronics equip- the distance to the reference point of ment maintenance or sales; (e) aircraft landing. rental, air taxi service or flight in- Instrument landing system glide path. A structions; and (f) baggage and cargo system of vertical guidance embodied handling, and other passenger or in the instrument landing system freight services. which indicates the vertical deviation Aviation services. Radio-communica- of the aircraft from its optimum path tion services for the operation of air- of descent. craft. These services include aero- Instrument landing system localizer. A nautical fixed service, aeronautical system of horizontal guidance em- mobile service, aeronautical radio- bodied in the instrument landing sys- determination service, and secondarily, tem which indicates the horizontal de- the handling of public correspondence viation of the aircraft from its opti- on frequencies in the maritime mobile mum path of descent along the axis of and maritime mobile satellite services the or along some other path to and from aircraft. when used as an offset. Aviation support station. An aero- Land station. A station in the mobile nautical station used to coordinate service not intended to be used while in aviation services with aircraft and to motion. communicate with aircraft engaged in Localizer station. A radionavigation unique or specialized activities. (See land station which provides horizontal subpart K) guidance to aircraft with respect to a Differential GPS (DGPS). A system runway center line. which transmits corrections to the station. A radio- GPS derived position. navigation land station in the aero- Emergency locator transmitter (ELT). A nautical radionavigation service which transmitter of an aircraft or a survival employs a marker beacon. A marker craft actuated manually or automati- beacon is a transmitter which radiates

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vertically a distinctive pattern for pro- spacecraft, used to determine the viding position information to aircraft. height of the aircraft or spacecraft Mean power (of a radio transmitter). above the Earth’s surface or another The average power supplied to the an- surface. tenna transmission line by a trans- Radiobeacon station. A station in the mitter during an interval of time suffi- radionavigation service the emissions ciently long compared with the lowest of which are intended to enable a mo- frequency encountered in the modula- bile station to determine its bearing or tion taken under normal operating direction in relation to the radiobeacon conditions. station. . An instru- Radiodetermination service. A ment landing system operating in the radiocommuncation service which uses microwave spectrum that provides lat- radiodetermination. Radiodetermin- eral and vertical guidance to aircraft ation is the determination of the posi- having compatible avionics equipment. Mobile service. A radiocommunication tion, velocity and/or other characteris- service between mobile and land sta- tics of an object, or the obtaining of in- tions, or between mobile stations. A formation relating to these param- mobile station is intended to be used eters, by means of the propagation of while in motion or during halts at un- radio waves. A station in this service is specified points. called a radiodetermination station. Operational fixed station. A fixed sta- Radiolocation service. A radio- tion, not open to public correspond- determination service for the purpose ence, operated by and for the sole use of radiolocation. Radiolocation is the of persons operating their own use of radiodetermination for purposes radiocommunication facilities in the other than those of radionavigation. public safety, industrial, land transpor- Radionavigation land test stations. A tation, marine, or aviation services. radionavigation land station which is Peak envelope power (of a radio trans- used to transmit information essential mitter). The average power supplied to to the testing and calibration of air- the antenna transmission line by a craft navigational aids, receiving transmitter during one radio frequency equipment, and interrogators at pre- cycle at the crest of the modulation en- determined surface locations. The velope taken under normal operating Maintenance Test Facility (MTF) is conditions. used primarily to permit maintenance Private aircraft station. A mobile sta- testing by aircraft radio service per- tion on board an aircraft not operated sonnel. The Operational Test Facility as an air carrier. A station on board an (OTF) is used primarily to permit the air carrier aircraft weighing less than pilot to check a radionavigation sys- 12,500 pounds maximum certified take- tem aboard the aircraft prior to take- off gross weight may be licensed as a off. private aircraft station. Radionavigation service. A radio- Racon station. A radionavigation land determination service for the purpose station which employs a racon. A racon of radionavigation. Radionavigation is ( beacon) is a transmitter-re- the use of radiodetermination for the ceiver associated with a fixed naviga- purpose of navigation, including ob- tional mark, which when triggered by a radar, automatically returns a distinc- struction warning. tive signal which can appear on the dis- Re-usable launch vehicle (RLV). A play of the triggering radar, providing booster rocket that can be recovered range, bearing and identification infor- after launch, refurbished and re- mation. launched. Radar. A radiodetermination system Surveillance radar station. A radio- based upon the comparison of reference navigation land station in the aero- signals with radio signals reflected, or nautical radionavigation service em- re-transmitted, from the position to be ploying radar to display the presence of determined. aircraft within its range. Radio altimeter. Radionavigation Survival craft station. A mobile sta- equipment, on board an aircraft or tion in the maritime or aeronautical

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mobile service intended solely for sur- tion licensed by rule must be operated vival purposes and located on any life- in accordance with all applicable oper- boat, life raft or other survival equip- ating requirements, procedures, and ment. technical specifications found in this Traffic information services—broadcast part. (TIS–B). Traffic information broadcasts [61 FR 58011, Nov. 12, 1996] derived from ground-based radar sys- tems. § 87.19 Basic eligibility. Universal access transceiver (UAT). A radio datalink system authorized to (a) General. Foreign governments or operate on the frequency 978 MHz to their representatives cannot hold sta- support Automatic Dependent Surveil- tion licenses. lance—Broadcast (ADS–B) Service, (b) Aeronautical enroute and aero- Traffic Information Services—Broad- nautical fixed stations. The following cast (TIS–B) and Flight Information persons cannot hold an aeronautical Service—Broadcast (FIS–B). enroute or an aeronautical fixed sta- tion license. VHF Omni directional range station (1) Any alien or the representative of (VOR). A radionavigation land station in the aeronautical radionavigation any alien; service providing direct indication of (2) Any corporation organized under the bearing (omni-bearing) of that sta- the laws of any foreign government; tion from an aircraft. (3) Any corporation of which more than one-fifth of the capital stock is [53 FR 28940, Aug. 1, 1988, as amended at 54 owned of record or voted by aliens or FR 11719, Mar. 22, 1989; 54 FR 49995, Dec. 4, their representatives or by a foreign 1989; 55 FR 4175, Feb. 7, 1990; 57 FR 45749, Oct. government or its representative, or by 5, 1992; 64 FR 27474, May 20, 1999; 69 FR 32879, a corporation organized under the laws June 14, 2004; 71 FR 70676, Dec. 6, 2006] of a foreign country; or (4) Any corporation directly or indi- Subpart B—Applications and rectly controlled by any other corpora- Licenses tion of which more than one-fourth of the capital stock is owned of record or § 87.17 Scope. voted by aliens, their representatives, Part 1 of the Commission’s rules con- or by a foreign government or its rep- tains the general rules of practice and resentatives, or by any corporation or- procedure applicable to proceedings be- ganized under the laws of a foreign fore the Commission and for the filing country, if the Commission finds that of applications for radio station li- the public interest will be served by censes in the aviation services. Specific the refusal or revocation of such li- guidance for each type of radio service cense. license in aviation services is set forth in this part. [53 FR 28940, Aug. 1, 1988, as amended at 61 FR 55581, Oct. 28, 1996] [63 FR 68957, Dec. 14, 1998] § 87.25 Filing of applications. § 87.18 Station license required. (a) [Reserved] (a) Except as noted in paragraph (b) (b) An application must be filed with of this section, stations in the aviation the Commission in accordance with service must be licensed by the FCC ei- part 1, subpart F of this chapter. Appli- ther individually or by fleet. cations requiring fees as set forth at (b) An aircraft station is licensed by part 1, subpart G of this chapter must rule and does not need an individual li- be filed in accordance with § 0.401(b) of cense issued by the FCC if the aircraft the rules. station is not required by statute, trea- (c) One application may be submitted ty, or agreement to which the United for the total number of aircraft sta- States is signatory to carry a radio, tions in the fleet (fleet license). and the aircraft station does not make (d) One application for aeronautical international flights or communica- land station license may be submitted tions. Even though an individual li- for the total number of stations in the cense is not required, an aircraft sta- fleet.

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