National Parks Air Tour Management

The FAA publishes this document to inform commercial air tour operators of recent legislation that affects them. The National Parks Air Tour Management act of 2000, part of Public Law 106-181, was signed into law on April 5, 2000. The Act requires operators who conduct commercial air tours under Part 92 over national parks, tribal lands within such parks, or tribal lands abutting such parks to apply to the FAA to obtain a certificate under Part 119, Part 121, or Part 135 to continue these commercial air tour operators. Excluded from this law are parks in Alaska and Grand Canyon national Park and Rocky Mountain National Park. The FAA publishes this document to assist commercial air tour operators, who conduct some air torus under Part 91, in meeting the requirements of the public law.