We believe careful study should also be given to the present need, ay for the issuance of certificates by the Federal Government to the thousands of persons engaged in the inspection, maintenance, overhaul, or repair arraft of the type commonly utilized in general aviation. There is a genfg throughout the general aviation industry that this type of aviation Tasteen Lind enpped and retarded rather than fostered and developed, because Le stri ́t regulations it has been subjected to during recent years. If, in e juguent of the committee and Congress, a liberalization is desirable, it is sts that it might effectively be accomplished by describing the type of at must be performed only by certificated persons and expressly exclude geise from such requirement.

♫ taifionɛ --it is the general position of the States that the broadening of etega story base of civil aviation should be avoided in every instance where here is not a clear cut and presently discernible requirement that the base be

To the extent that the definitions in title I have a tendency to expand ℗ area in which the proposed authority may regulate, they should be subed to the most searching scrutiny. It has been a constant complaint of all #gets of the civil aviation industry that the massive burden of regulations, in the fields of safety and economies, and the sheer complexity of the 8, has become a barrier to its normal and natural growth, instead aff wring and encouraging development of every useful purpose of the airternitting the full force and play of ingenuity and imagination. There elah mere color of argument that the mass of regulations and interrations have tended to hold back advancement and discourage the individual. Steering definitions that embrace all phases of every level of aviation activky with the regulatory powers set forth in subsequent titles of the act would a pear to open the door to a greater complexity attaching to aviation activity, * Ser than a simplification, whether the area of the regulation is to be safety

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We have several particular sections in mind. For example: in of "air contractor" (sec. 101, subpar. (4)). It appears to be so ve that it could expose to economic regulation the little airport operator - fid in the small town; the agricultural operator engaged in spraygadi wig; the industrial operator patroling pipe and transmission lines:

dial dealing in new or used aircraft or their component parts; persons 2 215, he of operating a repair station, etc. Until such time as there is rstrated need for economic regulation of any or all these phases of · it is the ab ding conviction of the States that any gratuitous imposiSh regulations should be avoided-for almost ineviably if the power 'e is so given, it will be exercised. It is, accordingly, recommended the extent of the purposes of definitions, (1) determine demonstratable fresent need, and contine definitory treatment to those areas or segments h need is affirmatively determined, and (2) define the areas or segof evil aviat.on that are to be embraced in economic regulation. arv in the field of economic regulation as related to definitions, the fa'l air carriers into "regular" and "irregular" gives rise to the pos*a* basi exs firms operating aircraft, or perhaps even fleets of aircraft, eir own private, incidental business use, may be subjected to economie n's new they could be construed "irregular carriers" within the frameLe de finition.

T CHAIRMAN. We will adjourn the hearing on S. 3410 at this twill keep the record open a few days to receive additional Whereupon, at 12:30 p. m., the hearing was adjourned.)

FEDERAL-AID AIRPORT PROGRAM

TABLE 1.-State apportionments and unobligated balances at close of fiscal years 1949-52

Source: Prepared by CAA Office of Airports, Apr. 2, 1954.