FAA Annual Program Letters - due Jan. 31 each year

Attention Owner / Operators of Experimental –
Exhibition (EE) Aircraft

The Flight Standards District Office (FSDO) Region needs the accountability for EE aircraft by means of the Annual Program Letter.

Aircraft Owner / Operators are require to submit a program letter for the air shows, fly-ins, that will be attending during the following fiscal year. You would be submitting the fiscal program letter during normal FSDO working hours. Again the preferred method is primarily by E-mail, secondary by FAX or by letter to the FSDO POC. This list of events may be amended a necessary and acknowledge by a FAA representative or EE point of contact prior to the intended operation amendments.

Program Letter to be submitted regardless the aircraft is airworthy, not flown or non-flyable.

If you no longer own this aircraft or no longer are in our district, please inform us of this information. As a reminder in accordance with § 47.45, the FAA Aircraft Registry must be notified within 30 days for any change of the aircraft registrant address. Such notification is to be made by submitting Aeronautical Center Form 8050-1 to AFS-750 in Oklahoma City.

Please provide the above requested information to our office no later than January 31, (each year). If this office has not received your annual program letter prior to the aircraft’s Month of Date of Issue originate on FAA Form 8130-7, the aircraft will be considered in violation of the federal aviation regulations.

If you do not have Operating Limitation assigned to the aircraft in your possession, contact the FSDO POC for reissue.

We look forward to hearing from you soon. If you have any questions or if we can be of any assistance, please don’t hesitate to contact the Sacramento office POC at (916) 422-0272 ext. 229 and or email: richard.t.dilbeck@faa.gov
(See attached file: Program Letter Form.doc link below)

Richard T. Dilbeck 'Dilly'
Aviation Safety Inspector
Airworthiness

Richard T. Dilbeck's prefered method is to E-mail the letter to him:

email: richard.t.dilbeck@faa.gov

Or you can Fax, or Mail Letters to:

Flight Standards District Office WP-25
1102 Corporate Way Bldg.B Suite 200
Sacramento, CA. 95831

Download FAA Program Letter for Experimental Aircraft

• Microsoft Word Version (.doc) Click link to download the MS Word Document.
• Adobe PDF version (.pdf) Click link to download the Adobe PDF Document.