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Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii

Part 1 Airport Planning
1 The Nature of Civil Aviation and Airports . . . . . . 3
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Commercial Service Aviation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Passenger Air Carriers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
International Air Transportation . . . . . . . . . . 7
Air Cargo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
General Aviation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Civil Aviation Airports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Historical Review of the Legislative Role
in Aviation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Air Commerce Act of 1926 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Federal Airport Act of 1946 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Federal Aviation Act of 1958 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Creation of the U.S. Department
of Transportation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Airport and Airway Development Act
of 1970 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 . . . . . . . . . . 31
Impact of Airline Deregulation . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
The Airport and Airway Improvement Act
of 1982 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
The Aviation Safety and Capacity Act
of 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
AIR-21: The Wendell Ford Aviation
Investment Act for the 21st Century . . . . . . . . 34
The Aviation and Transportation Security
Act of 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Vision 100 Century of Aviation
Act of 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
NextGen Financing Reform Act of 2007/
FAA Reauthorization Act of 2009 . . . . . . . 35
State Roles in Aviation and Airports . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

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