Petition for Exemption; Summary of Petition Received; Sustainable Skylines Corp.

AGENCY:

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Department of Transportation (DOT).

ACTION:

Notice.

SUMMARY:

This notice contains a summary of a petition seeking relief from specified requirements of Federal Aviation Regulations. The purpose of this notice is to improve the public's awareness of, and participation in, the FAA's exemption process. Neither publication of this notice nor the inclusion nor omission of information in the summary is intended to affect the legal status of the petition or its final disposition.

DATES:

Comments on this petition must identify the petition docket number and must be received on or before November 12, 2024.

ADDRESSES:

Send comments identified by docket number [FAA-2023-0200] using any of the following methods:

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and follow the online instructions for sending your comments electronically.
• Mail: Send comments to Docket Operations, M-30; U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Room W12-140, West Building Ground Floor, Washington, DC 20590-0001.
• Hand Delivery or Courier: Take comments to Docket Operations in Room W12-140 of the West Building Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590-0001, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
• Fax: Fax comments to Docket Operations at (202) 493-2251.

Privacy: In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 553(c), DOT solicits comments from the public to better inform its rulemaking process. DOT posts these comments, without edit, including any personal information the commenter provides, to http://www.regulations.gov, as described in the system of records notice (DOT/ALL-14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at http://www.dot.gov/privacy.

Docket: Background documents or comments received may be read at http://www.regulations.gov at any time. Follow the online instructions for accessing the docket or go to the Docket Operations in Room W12-140 of the West Building Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590-0001, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jake Troutman, (202) 683-7788, Office of Rulemaking, Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20591.

This notice is published pursuant to 14 CFR 11.85.

Petition for Exemption Amendment

Docket No.: FAA-2023-0200.

Petitioner: Sustainable Skylines Corp.

Section(s) of 14 CFR Affected: §§ 61.23(a), 61.23(c), 61.101(e)(4), 61.101(e)(5), 61.113(a), 61.113(b), 61.315(a), 61.315(c)(2), 61.315(c)(3), 91.7(a), 91.119(c), 91.121, 91.403(b), 91.405(a), 91.407(a)(1), 91.409(a)(1), 91.409(a)(2), 91.417(a), 91.417(b).

Description of Relief Sought: Sustainable Skylines Corp. seeks to amend their existing grant of exemption, which allows them to operate the VELARY LIFT 10 unmanned aircraft system (UAS) for banner towing operations launching and recovering from a designated secure area adjacent to and operating over a four nautical mile (nm) stretch of water along the Miami Beach, Florida coastline, to add the Watts Innovations AERO Sky UAS, which is a hybrid VTOL UAS that has a MTOW of 85.5 lbs. to conduct “Daisy Chaining” beyond visual line of site operations where visual observers VO(s) continuously observe at least a 2 statute mile radius of airspace surrounding the UA in flight to identify any non-participating aircraft prior to their entry into the planned operational area.