Responsible Office
AAS-100

This advisory circular (AC) provides guidance and recommendations on the installation of airport visual aids.

150/5300-13 (Part 1: Chapters 1-8) (PDF)
150/5300-13 (Part 2: Appendices 1-11) (PDF)
150/5300-13 (Part 3: Appendix 12) (PDF)
150/5300-13 (Part 4: Appendices 13-19) (PDF)
AC 150/5300-13 (Consolidated) (Complete) (PDF)

Provides guidance to assist airport sponsors in their evaluation and preparation of the airport landing surface to support instrument approach procedures and incorporates change 4 criteria into the airport layout plan preparation guidance.

150/5300-13 Change 5 (PDF)

Provides expanded guidance for new approach procedures and incorporates new Flight Standards requirements.

150/5300-13 Change 6 (PDF)

Provides new guidance consistent with Runway Safety Area Program requirments, clarifies nighttime threshold siting requirements, and revises new instrument approach procedures and requirements for preparing airport layout plans.

150/5300-13 Change 7 (PDF)

Removes Precision Object Free Area (POFA) and establishes Precision Obstacle Free Zone (POFZ), changes standards for the Runway Safety Area, and revises Appendix 2 to allow for greater flexibility in threshold siting criteria.

150/5300-13 Change 8 (PDF)
150/5300-13 Change 8 (MS Word)

Corrects Table 3-3 and revises Appendix 2 to include standards for runway end siting requirements, including a new 40:1 departure surface.

150/5300-13 Change 9 (PDF)
150/5300-13 Change 9 (MS Word)

Adds information about tail heights and a table specifying wingspan and tail heights for each Airplane Design Group to Chapter 1, a paragraph about End-Around Taxiways and associated figures and tables to Chapter 4, and a new Appendix 17, Minimum Distances Between Certain Airport Features and Any On-Airport Agriculture Crops. Includes changes to Chapter 1; Tables 2-1, 2-2, 3-1, 3-2, and 3-3; Chapter 4; Appendix 2, and Appendix 16. Cancels Appendices 6 and 7. See also Errata Sheet below.

150/5300-13 Change 10 (PDF)
150/5300-13 Change 10 (MS Word)
Errata Sheet for 150/5300-13 Change 10 (October 13, 2006) (MS Word)

Clarifies the standard for the Runway Protection Zone (RPZ), makes an editorial correction to Table 3-3, and updates the Table of Contents and Figure 2-3.

150/5300-13 Change 11 (PDF)
150/5300-13 Change 11 (MS Word)

Reschedules the One Engine Inoperative (OEI) implementation date from January 1, 2008, to January 1, 2009. Also requires end-around taxiway projects to be pre-approved by the Office of Airport Safety and Standards, Airport Engineering Division; changes the applicability of Appendix 2, paragraph 3b, to allow the use of these standards to object to objects affecting navigable airspace relative to 14 CFR Part 77; and identifies what Airport Airspace Analysis Survey criteria to use based on current or planned instrument approaches serving the runway ends.

150/5300-13 Change 12 (PDF)
150/5300-13 Change 12 (MS Word)
Errata Sheet for 150/5300-13 Change 12 (February 15, 2008) (MS Word)

Moves data from Table 1 of Advisory Circular (AC) 150/5340-18D, Standards for Airport Sign Systems, into Tables 2-1 and 2-2 of this AC. A new paragraph 213 includes the information from Table 1 and additional information about this change.

Change 13 (PDF)
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Errata Sheet for 150/5300-13 Change 13 (July 31, 2008) (MS Word)

This Change reschedules the One Engine Inoperative (OEI) implementation date from January 1, 2009, to January 1, 2010.

Change 14 (PDF)
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