Title 49, TransportationRelease 119-102

§44719 Standards for Navigational Aids

Title 49 › SUBTITLE VII — AVIATION PROGRAMS › PART A — AIR COMMERCE AND SAFETY › subpart iii — safety › CHAPTER 447 — SAFETY REGULATION › § 44719

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Transportation must set rules for installing navigational aids, including control towers, and must consider traffic, terrain, weather, passengers, and efficiency.

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Title 49, §44719

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The Secretary of Transportation shall prescribe regulations on standards for installing navigational aids, including airport control towers. For each type of facility, the regulations shall consider at a minimum traffic density (number of aircraft operations without consideration of aircraft size), terrain and other obstacles to navigation, weather characteristics, passengers served, and potential aircraft operating efficiencies.

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Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 4471949 App.:1348 (note).Dec. 30, 1987, Pub. L. 100–223, § 308, 101 Stat. 1526. The words “Not later than December 31, 1988” are omitted as obsolete.

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49 U.S.C. § 44719

Title 49, Transportation

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Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102