General Operating and Flight Rules; Airports/Locations Special Operating Restrictions; Amendment

This action amends the Appendix listing airports/locations with special operating restrictions in FAA's general operating and flight rules. Specifically, this action adds a new entry for Covington, KY, in alphabetical order and revises the entries for Houston, TX, and Washington, DC, in section 1 of the Appendix, which lists the airports where aircraft operating within 30 nautical miles of the listed airports, from the surface upward to 10,000 feet mean sea level (MSL) must be equipped with an altitude encoding transponder. Additionally, this action ``Reserves'' section 2 which is no longer required, and revises the entries for Covington, KY, Houston, TX, and Washington, DC, in section 3 which lists locations at which fixed-wing special VFR operations are prohibited. The FAA is taking this action to correctly identify applicable airports under the appropriate sections in the Appendix.