Executive Order 5281—To Establish Air Space Reservations Over Certain Harbors as Prohibited Areas for Civil Aircraft

Pursuant to the authority contained in section 4 of the Air Commerce Act of 1926, approved May 20, 1926 (44 Stat. 568; title 49, sec. 174, Supp. III, U.S. Code), the air space over each of the hereinafter named harbors that are declared closed ports by Executive Order No. 1613, dated September 23, 1912, is hereby designated, reserved, and set aside for governmental purposes as a prohibited area within which civil aircraft are not authorized to be navigated:

     Tortugas, Florida;
     Great Harbor, Culebra;
     Guantánamo Naval Station, Cuba;
     Pearl Harbor, Hawaii;
     Guam;
     Súbic Bay, Philippine Islands;
     Kiska, Aleutian Islands,

At no time shall civil aircraft of any kind be navigated within the air-space reservations above defined except by special authority of the United States Navy Department in each case. Navigation of aircraft within such air-space reservations otherwise than in conformity with this order shall be subject to the penalties provided by section 11 of the said Air Commerce Act of 1926.

HERBERT HOOVER

The White House,
February 17, 1930.