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GAO-17-73R 1 (2016-10-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaakij0001 and id is 1 raw text is: cIAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 October 31, 2016 The Honorable Jason Chaffetz Chairman The Honorable Elijah E. Cummings Ranking Member Committee on Oversight and Government Reform House of Representatives The Honorable John Mica Chairman Subcommittee on Transportation and Public Assets Committee on Oversight and Government Reform House of Representatives Reported Inventory, Use, and Cost of Federally Owned Aircraft Federally owned aircraft are operated by agencies to fulfill their diverse missions. According to Federal Management Regulations, agencies can acquire an aircraft through several different methods. Federal agencies that own aircraft are required to report quarterly data on each aircraft to the Federal Aviation Interactive Reporting System (FAIRS).1 You asked us to provide information on the composition and characteristics of federally owned aircraft. The enclosure presents our findings regarding what recent information is available on the amount, use, and cost of federally owned civilian aircraft. We presented this information to your staff in September 2016. To address this area, we reviewed FAIRS information. This system is maintained by the General Services Administration (GSA) and includes information on aircraft inventory, use, and costs. GSA publishes an annual report that aggregates data by agency. We reviewed and summarized annual data published by GSA in FAIRS reports from fiscal years 2011, 2014, and 2015.2 In addition, we also analyzed unpublished FAIRS data on individual aircraft that were in agencies' reported inventories as of July 2016.1 The data we analyzed did not include aircraft belonging to the Department of Defense, the Coast Guard, or intelligence agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation. These agencies are not required to report aircraft data to GSA, but some intelligence agencies reported data. Agencies are also allowed to revise the data they previously reported. As a result, data from annual FAIRS reports, the July 2016 data included in 1 Pursuant to 41 C.F.R. § 102-33.20 an owned aircraft is one that an executive branch agency holds title to or borrows for any length of time. 2 The published inventories include aircraft that federal agencies own but lease to others paying the costs (such as states). They also include aircraft from intelligence agencies for which costs and use are not reported to FAIRS. 3 When analyzing unpublished FAIRS data, we limited owned aircraft to those aircraft that were owned and used by the same agency. GAO-1 7-73R Federally Owned Aircraft Page 1

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