---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 157.3"
title: "14"
number: "157.3"
heading: "Projects requiring notice."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/157.3"
---

# §157.3. Projects requiring notice.


Each person who intends to do any of the following shall notify the Administrator in the manner prescribed in [§ 157.5](/cfr/14/157.5.md):

- (a) **Construct or otherwise establish a new airport or activate an airport.**
- (b) Construct, realign, alter, or activate any runway or other aircraft landing or takeoff area of an airport.
- (c) Deactivate, discontinue using, or abandon an airport or any landing or takeoff area of an airport for a period of one year or more.
- (d) Construct, realign, alter, activate, deactivate, abandon, or discontinue using a taxiway associated with a landing or takeoff area on a public-use airport.
- (e) **Change the status of an airport from private use to public use or from public use to another status.**
- (f) **Change any traffic pattern or traffic pattern altitude or direction.**
- (g) **Change status from IFR to VFR or VFR to IFR.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40103, 40113, 44502.

### Source

Source: Docket 25708, 56 FR 33996, July 24, 1991, unless otherwise noted.