The US National Parks Service and FAA used outdated air tour operation info and other data to justify cancelling aerial tours over Mount Rushmore and South Dakota’s Badlands, three helicopter site-seeing companies argued in an appellate brief filed Friday with the Eighth Circuit.
The companies are asking the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit to overturn the agencies’ ruling, remand the rulemaking and at least provisionally restore the companies’ operating authority to fly over the presidential monument and the other regional attractions, while the government revises its Air Tour Management Plans.
The Federal Aviation Administration and parks service ...
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