42-14251. Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Air commerce" means the scheduled transportation by aircraft of persons or
property for hire in interstate, intrastate or international transportation.
2. "Aircraft" means any device that is used or designed for navigation or flight
through the air.
3. "Aircraft time" means the number of minutes in the preceding calendar year in
which flight property was in the possession of an airline company.
4. "Airline company" means any person who directly or indirectly undertakes to
engage in the business of scheduled air commerce.
5. "Fleet type" means aircraft type and model.
6. "Flight property" means all airline company aircraft of the types used in this
state except aircraft that are permanently removed from operations.
7. "Operating", "operations" or "operated" means regularly scheduled aircraft
landings or takeoffs.
8. "Original cost" means the capitalized acquisition cost to the original purchaser
from the manufacturer of airframes and engines plus substantial modifications. If the
acquisition cost cannot be determined, original cost means the manufacturer's original
list price for the model, type and year plus substantial modifications.
9. "Person" means any individual, corporation, firm, partnership, company or
association and includes a guardian, trustee, executor, administrator, receiver or
conservator or any person who acts in a fiduciary capacity.
10. "Small flight property" means all airline company aircraft of the types that are
used in this state, not permanently removed from operations, with a maximum passenger
capacity of less than fifty-six seats and a maximum payload capacity of less than
eighteen thousand pounds.
11. "State ground time" means the number of minutes that flight property is
considered to be on the ground in this state during the preceding calendar year and is
computed by multiplying the number of departures of flight property in this state during
the preceding calendar year by forty-five.
12. "System ground time" means the number of minutes that flight property is on the
ground systemwide during the preceding calendar year and is computed by subtracting the
number of revenue and nonrevenue airborne minutes of all flight property during the
preceding calendar year from aircraft time.
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