Words and phrases defined.
Section 3
SEC. 3. Words and phrases defined.—The following definitions shall control in the application and construction of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Administrator" means the Civil Aeronautics Administrator. (b) "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. (c) "Aeronautics" means the science and art of flight. (d) "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. (e) "Aeronautical telecommunication station" means any station operated to provide telecommunications for aeronautical purposes. (f) "Air carrier" means a person who undertakes, whether directly or indirectly, or by a lease or any other arrangements, to engage in air transportation or air commerce. (g) "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. (h) "Air transportation" means service or carriage of persons, property, or mail, in whole or in part, by aircraft. (i) "Aircraft" means any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used, or designed for navigation of, or flight in, the air. (j) "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. (k) "Aircraft radio station" means a radio station on board any aircraft. (l) "Airman" 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, aircraft engine, propellers, or appliances; and any individual who serves in the capacity of aircraft dis¬patcher or air-traffic control operator. (m) "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 signalling, 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. (n) "Airway" 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. (o) "Airworthiness" means that an aircraft, its engines, propellers, and other components and accessories, are of proper design and construction, and are safe for air navigation purposes, such design and construction being consistent with accepted engineering practice and in accordance with aerodynamic laws and aircraft science. (p) "Appliances" means instruments, equipment, apparatus, parts, appurtenances, or accessories, of whatever description, which are used or are capable of being or intended to be used in the 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. (q) "Board" means the Civil Aeronautics Board. (r) "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. (s) "Civil Aircraft" means any aircraft other than a public aircraft. (t) "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. (u) "Domestic air commerce" means and includes air commerce within the limits of the Philippine territory. (v) "Domestic air transportation" means air transportation within the limits of the Philippine territory. (w) "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. (x) "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. (y) "Foreign air commerce" means and includes air commerce between the Philippines and any place outside it. (z) "Foreign air transportation" means air transportation between the Philippines and any place outside it, or wholly outside the Philippines. (aa) "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. (bb) "Mail" means Philippine mail or foreign-transit mail. (cc) "Navigation of aircraft" or "navigate aircraft" includes the piloting of aircraft. (dd) "Navigable air space" means air space above the minimum altitudes of flight prescribed by regulations issued under this Act. (ee) "Permit" means Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity. (ff) "Person" means any individual, firm, copartnership, corporation, company, association, joint-stock association, or body politic; and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, or other similar representative thereof. (gg) "Propeller" includes all parts, appurtenances and accessories thereof. (hh) "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 government-owned aircraft engaged in air commerce. (ii) "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.