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FAA REJECTS VENICE DOWNGRADE REQUEST

The FAA has rejected a request by the city of Venice, Fla., to downgrade the Venice airport reference code (ARC) to B-II from the existing C-II.

By Matt Thurber • Editor-in-Chief

February 22, 2010

The FAA has rejected a request by the city of Venice, Fla., to downgrade the Venice airport reference code (ARC) to B-II from the existing C-II. The ARC’s first letter signifies the aircraft approach category and the Roman numeral relates to airplane wingspan size. The January 8 FAA letter points out that the city believes that the FAA will permit the ARC downgrade based on fewer than 500 operations per year.

But the ARC classification depends on both considering the largest aircraft “with either 500 annual operations or 250 annual departures” and “all airport users and tenants.” There are already C-II category aircraft based at Venice and also using the airport for transient trips.

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