Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, March 1, 2024
RELATES TO: KRS 183.090, 183.110
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: This administrative
regulation sets forth the safety and adequacy standards applicable to all
airports including heliports that an airport owner is required to comply with
before the Transportation Cabinet may issue a Landing Area Designation to the
airport.
Section 1. Definitions.
(1) "Displaced threshold" means a marked
threshold located at a point on the runway other than at the runway
end.
(2) "Helicopter" means a
rotorcraft that, for its horizontal motion, depends principally on its
engine-driven rotors.
(3)
"Heliport" means an airport used exclusively or intended to be used for the
landing and takeoff of helicopters. It may either be at ground level or
elevated on a structure.
(4)
"Primary surface" means a surface longitudinally centered on a runway. When the
runway has a specially prepared hard surface, the primary surface extends 200
feet beyond each end of that runway; but when the runway has no specially
prepared hard surface, or planned hard surface, the primary surface ends at
each end of that runway. The elevation of any point of the primary surface is
the same as the elevation of the nearest point of the runway
centerline.
(5) "Runway" means the
surface of an airport used for the landing and taking off of aircraft as
depicted on the airport zoning map or airport master plan, and Federal Aviation
Administration form 7480-1 Notice of Landing Area Proposal.
Section 2. All airports including
heliports regardless of classification shall provide the following basic
facilities:
(1) A wind indicator of sufficient
size to be plainly discernible from an altitude of 1000 feet. The wind
indicator shall not be required at an airport with a Federal Aviation
Administration control tower which operates twenty-four (24) hours a day;
and
(2) A number of markers
sufficient to make plainly discernible the turf runway or landing area usable
or in use; or
(3) A paved runway or
landing area shall have painted markings.
Section 3. All airports including heliports
that maintain aircraft servicing facilities shall provide:
(1) Fire extinguishers in sufficient number
and sizes to control probable fires.
(2) Telephone maintained in proper operating
condition.
Section 4.
The owner of an airport not including heliports shall have control of the
primary surface and in addition no fences or other obstructions shall be
located within 200 feet of the ends of a runway unless a displaced threshold on
the runway is approved by the Transportation Cabinet.
STATUTORY AUTHORITY: KRS 183.024
