RA 776

• Administrator


  means the Civil Aeronautics Administrator
• Aerodrome


  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.
• Aeronautics


  means the science and art of flight.
• Aeronautical telecommunication

  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.
• Aeronautical telecommunication station


  means any station operated to provide telecommunications for aeronautical purposes.
• Air Carrier


  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.
• Air Commerce


  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.
• Air transportation


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


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


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


  means a radio station on board any aircraft.
• Airmen


  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.
• Air navigation facility


  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.
• Airways


  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.
• Airworthiness


  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.
• Appliances


  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.
• Board


  means the Civil Aeronautics Board
• Citizen of the Philippines


  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.
• Civil Aircraft


  means any aircraft other than a public aircraft.
• Domestic Air Carrier


  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.
• Domestic air commerce


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


  means air transportation within the limits of the Philippine territory.
• Flight radio operator


  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.
• Foreign air carrier


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


  means and includes air commerce between the Philippines and any place outside it.
• Foreign air transportation


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


  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.
• Mail


  means Philippine mail or foreign transit mail.
• Navigation of aircraft


  or navigate aircraft includes the piloting of aircraft.
• Navigable air space


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


  means Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.
• Persons


  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.
• Propeller

  includes all parts, appurtenances and accessories thereof.
• Public aircraft


  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.
• Reasonable charges


  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.
• General sales agent 


  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.
• Cargo sales agent


  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.
• Airfreight forwarder


  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.