Module 2 RA 776 Definition of Terms

Question 1

means the Civil Aeronautics Administrator.

Answer 1

Administrator

Question 2

” means a defined area on land or water, including any
buildings, installations and equipment intended to be used either wholly or in part for the
arrival, departure and movement of aircraft.

Answer 2

aerodrome

Question 3

means the science and art of flight.

Answer 3

Aeronautics

Question 4

means and includes any telegraph or
telephone communication signs, signals, writings, images and sounds of any nature, by
wire, radio or other systems or processes of signaling, used in the aeronautical service.

Answer 4

Aeronautical telecommunication

Question 5

means any station operated to
provide telecommunications for aeronautical purposes.

Answer 5

Aeronautical Telecommunication Station

Question 6

” means a person who undertakes, whether directly or indirectly, or by a lease of any other arrangements, to engage in air transportation or air
commerce.

Answer 6

Air Carrier

Question 7

means and includes air transportation for pay or hire, the
navigation of aircraft in furtherance of a business, or the navigation of aircraft from one
place to another for operation in the conduct of a business.

Answer 7

Air Commerce

Question 8

” means service or carriage of persons, property or mail,
in whole or in part, by aircraft.

Answer 8

Air Transportation

Question 9

” means any contrivance now known or hereafter invented,
used, or designed for navigation of, or flight in the air.

Answer 9

Aircraft

Question 10

means an engine used or intended to be used for
propulsion of aircraft and includes all parts, appurtenances, and accessories thereof other than propellers

Answer 10

AIrcraft engine

Question 11

means a radio station on board any aircraft.

Answer 11

Aircraft Radio Station

Question 12

means any individual who engages, as the person in command
or as pilot, mechanic, flight radio operator or member of the crew, in the navigation
of aircraft while under way, and any individual who is directly in charge of inspection,
maintenance, overhauling or repair of aircraft engine, propellers, or appliances; and
any individual who serves in the capacity of aircraft dispatcher or air-traffic control
operator.

Answer 12

Airmen

Question 13

means any facility used in, available for use in
or designed for use, in aid of air navigation, including areas, lights, any apparatus or
equipment for disseminating weather information, for signaling, for radio-directional
finding, or for radio or other electrical communication, and any other structure or
mechanism having a similar purpose for guiding or controlling flight in the air or the
landing and take-off of aircraft.

Answer 13

AIr Navigation Facility

Question 14

means a path thru the navigable air space identified by an area
of specified width on the surface of the earth designated or approved by the Administrator
as suitable for air commerce or air transportation

Answer 14

Airways

Question 15

means that an aircraft, its engines, propellers, and other
components and accessories, are of proper design and construction being consistent
with accepted engineering practice and in accordance with aerodynamic laws and
aircraft science.

Answer 15

Airworthiness

Question 16

means instruments, equipments, apparatus, parts,
appurtenances, or accessories, of whatever description, which are used or are capable
of being or intended to be used in navigation, operation, or control of aircraft in
flight (including parachutes and communication equipment and any other mechanism or mechanisms installed in or attached to aircraft during flight), and which are not a
part or parts of aircraft, aircraft engines or propellers.

Answer 16

Appliances

Question 17

” means the Civil Aeronautics Board

Answer 17

Board

Question 18

means (a) an individual who is a citizen of the
Philippines, or (b) a partnership of which each member is such an individual or (c) a
corporation or association created or organized under the laws of the Philippines, of
which the directing head and two-thirds or more of the Board of Directors and other
managing officers are citizens of the Philippines, and in which sixty per centum of
the voting interest is owned or controlled by persons who are citizens of the Philippines

Answer 18

Citizen of the Philippines

Question 19

means any aircraft other than a public aircraft

Answer 19

Civil Aircraft

Question 20

means an air carrier who is a citizen of the
Philippines: Provided, That an air carrier who is not a citizen of the Philippines but
who may be allowed to engage in domestic and/or foreign air transportation, or domestic and/or foreign air commerce, in accordance with the provisions of Section
Twelve, Chapter IV of this Act, shall to all intents and purposes, be classified as a
domestic air carrier.

Answer 20

Domestic Air Carrier

Question 21

means and includes air commerce within the
limits of the Philippine territory.

Answer 21

Domestic Air Commerce

Question 22

means and includes a member of the operating
crew of aircraft who is granted a radio operator’s license by the Civil Aeronautics Administrator to operate aircraft radio station.

Answer 22

Flight Radio Operator

Question 23

means air transportation within the
limits of the Philippine territory.

Answer 23

Domestic Air Transportaton

Question 24

means an air carrier who is not a citizen of the
Philippines, and/or an air carrier other than a domestic air carrier.

Answer 24

Foreign Air Carrier

Question 25

” means and includes air commerce between the
Philippines and any place outside it.

Answer 25

Foreign Air Commerce

Question 26

means air transportation between the
Philippines and any place outside it, or wholly outside the Philippines.

Answer 26

Foreign Air Transportation

Question 27

” means any locality either on water or on land, which is
adapted for landing and taking-off of aircraft located along an airway and is intermediate
to airports connected by the airway, whether or not facilities are provided for the shelter,
servicing, or repair of aircraft, or for receiving or discharging passengers or cargo.

Answer 27

Landing Field

Question 28

means Philippine mail or foreign transit mail

Answer 28

Mail

Question 29

” or navigate aircraft includes the piloting of aircraft.

Answer 29

Navigation of Aircraft

Question 30

means air space above the minimum altitudes of
flight prescribed by regulations issued under this Act.

Answer 30

Navigable air space

Question 31

means Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.

Answer 31

Permit

Question 32

means any individual, firm, co-partnership, corporation,
company, association, joint-stock association, or body politic, and includes any trustee,
receiver, assignee, or other similar representative thereof.

Answer 32

Person

Question 33

” includes all parts, appurtenances and accessories thereof.

Answer 33

Propeller

Question 34

means an aircraft used exclusively in the service of the
National Government of the Republic of the Philippines or of any political subdivision or
instrumentality thereof, but not including any government-owned aircraft engaged in air
commerce.

Answer 34

Public Aircraft

Question 35

are those which insure just and reasonable return
on the capital invested, taking into consideration the cost of construction, operation and
maintenance and non-aeronautical revenue of the air navigation facility affected, which
shall be uniform

Answer 35

Reasonable Charge

Question 36

means any person, who does not directly operate an
aircraft for the purpose of engaging in air transportation or air commerce and not bonafide
employee of an air carrier, who as principal or agent, sells or offers for sale any air
transportation of cargo, or negotiates for, or holds himself out of solicitation, advertisement, or otherwise as one who sells, provides, furnished, contracts or arranges for
such air transportation of cargo.

Answer 36

Cargo Sales Agent

Question 37

means any indirect air carrier which, in the ordinary
and usual course of its undertaking, assembles and consolidates or provides for assembling and consolidating such property or performs or provides for the performance of
break-bulk and distributing operations with respect to consolidated shipments, and is responsible for the transportation of property from the point of receipt to point of destination and utilizes for the whole or any part of such transportation the services of a direct air carrier.

Answer 37

Airfreight Forwarder

Question 38

means a person not a bonafide employee of an air
carrier, who pursuant to an authority from an airline, by itself or through an agent, sells or
offers for sale any air transportation, or negotiates for, or holds himself out by solicitation, advertisement or otherwise as one who sells, provides, furnishes, contracts or arranges for, such air transportation.

Answer 38

General Sales Agent