Special Flight Authorization Questionnaire

Important: You must submit your SFA application to the FAA for processing by an Aviation Safety Inspector (ASI). FAA individual designees and Organization Designation Authorizations (ODAs) are not authorized to process SFA applications.

To initiate the process of applying for an SFA, you must first complete a brief questionnaire that consists of the following two questions. Your responses to these questions determine whether or not the aircraft is eligible for an SFA. If you can answer "No" to both questions, you can apply for an SFA.

• Is Aircraft from foreign military?
• Is this for special interest flight program?

You access the SFA Questionnaire page by clicking the Special Flight Authorization - New link in the Create Application bucket on the My AWC page. The SFA Questionnaire page displays.

At the top of the FAA header, Help, User Guide, References and Signout links are displayed in the right corner of the FAA page header. The Help link opens the page-specific help for the current page. The User Guide link opens the Airworthiness Certification User Guide, which is the secondary resource for Airworthiness Certification application user procedures and reference information. The Signout link logs you out of the AWC application. At the bottom of the FAA header, your name displays right justified along with a Person icon (); clicking the icon displays a pop-up screen with a list of the roles assigned to you.

The title bar showing the application name, "Airworthiness Certification (AWC) - Applicant Portal," displays at the top of the page below the standard FAA page header. The Airworthiness Certification application navigation top-level menu displays at the top of the page (below the title bar) and contains the links that provide access to the Airworthiness Certification commands, or functions: My AWC, Search, Certificate Management, Reassignment, Reports and Administration.

Once you answer the questions on this page and click Save, the following project information displays in an application data block below the top-level menu:

In addition, below the application data block is a tabbed third-tier menu with links to the various pages in the application process. The tabs are color coded indicating whether the pages under each tab are complete (green), in progress (yellow) or not yet started (red). Pages with required fields are marked with icons indicating completed (), in progress (), or not yet started ().

The third-tier menu has the following categories: Aircraft Info, Owner/Applicant Info, Aircraft Operations, External Document, and Review/Submit. Each category has links to the relevant various pages in the application on which you are working (see below).

The SFA Questionnaire page name appears below the third-tier menu.

To initiate the process of applying for an SFA, follow the steps below to complete the questionnaire. Required fields are marked with a red asterisk (*).

Complete the SFA Questionnaire

1. If your aircraft is from a foreign military, select the Yes radio button to the first question, "Is Aircraft from foreign military?"; otherwise, select No.
   • If you select Yes, a message displays directing you to contact the Department of State. The application process will then conclude.
   • If you select No, a second question displays asking if this is for a special interest flight program.
2. If your application is for a special interest flight program, select the Yes radio button to the second question, "Is this is for a special interest flight program?"; otherwise, select No.
• Click the Definitions link for an explanation of the Department of State Special Interest Flight program.
• If you select Yes, a message displays indicating that the aircraft is not eligible for an SFA. The application process will then conclude.
• If you select No, three buttons appear at the bottom of the screen: Save, Save & Next and Reset.
3. If you answered No to both questions, click Save to save the answers to the questionnaire and remain on the page, or click Save & Next to save your answers and move to the next page in the application process.

• Click Reset before clicking Save to clear your answers and start over.

4. Once you save your answers to the questionnaire, the application data block (described above) displays the following fields populated: Application Type ("Special Flight Authorization - New"), Status/State (Open), Application #, Application Date, Created By and Created Date.

Below the application data block, a tabbed third-tier menu with the following links displays:

• Aircraft Info
  • SFA Questionnaire
  • SFA Registration
• Owner/Applicant Information
  • Owner's Information
  • Applicant Information

• Aircraft Operations

  • Operating Purpose
  • Aircraft Operations

• External Document

  • Documents
• Review/Submit
  • Review
  • Change Status

When finished on this page, click Save to save your entries and remain on the page, or click Save & Next to save your entries and move to the next page, SFA Registration; see SFA Registration. A confirmation message displays. Click Reset before clicking Save to clear your entries.