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CASE STUDY
National Based Aircraft Inventory for Non Primary Airports
Client
Federal Aviation Administration
In September 2006, GCR initiated a project with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to provide an accurate inventory of all based aircraft at each General Aviation (GA) and Reliever airport in the United States’ National Plan of Integrated Airport System (NPIAS) (approx. 2,700 airports), and reconciling that inventory with the FAA's national aircraft registration database. This inventory and reconciliation will be used by the FAAfor planning and forecasting growth in the GA community, especially as the FAA looks at LPV (Localizer Performance with Vertical Guidance) approaches and other system-wide improvements.
In order to accomplish this, GCR developed a web-based application to track an inventory the approximately 200,000 based aircraft operating at the over 2,700 airports nationwide. GCR was responsible for the overall management of the nationwide data collection process, development of a system for maintaining the data, and establishing a web-enabled application to allow the FAA to view the aircraft inventory at each airport. Because the aggregate data provides a potential security risk, the information is designated "Security Sensitive Information" and is not available to the public.
GCR's application provides a real-time analysis of tail numbers received from the airports, and identifies such things as aircraft which are not in the FAA's aircraft registration database, those that don't have current registration, and those aircraft which are claimed to be based at multiple airports. After verifying the aircraft in the database, the final aircraft data is searchable by the FAA staff (and any other user authorized by FAA) through the web-enabled application.
The based aircraft counts will be audited by GCR's 5010 airport safety data inspectors during the three-year inspection cycle at each airport. Part 139 airports will be audited annually by the Part 139 inspectors. GCR has linked the based aircraft web-enabled application to the other FAA websites designed by GCR, 5010Web.com (www.5010Web.com) and CCMIS3.com (www.CCMIS3.com), to facilitate updating and transmitting based aircraft counts and other airport safety data for review and official reporting to FAA headquarters.
