Executive Order 7910—Establishing an Airspace Reservation Over a Portion of the District of Columbia

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 4 of the Air Commerce Act of 1926 (44 Stat. 568, 570), the airspace above the following-described portion of the District of Columbia is hereby reserved and set apart for national defense and other governmental purposes, and for public safety purposes, as an airspace reservation within which civil aircraft are forbidden to be operated except by special permission of the Secretary of Commerce:

All that area within the City of Washington, D.C., lying within the following-described boundary, together with all the area in the horizontal plane extending one-quarter of a mile outward from all points on such boundary:

Beginning at Union Station, thence to the Capitol, thence to the Naval Hospital, thence to the Executive Mansion, and thence to Union Station, the point of beginning.

Persons operating aircraft within this airspace reservation in violation of the provisions of this order or of the said Air Commerce Act of 1926 will be subject to the penalties prescribed by section 11 of that act.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
June 16, 1938.