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Doc 9981 — Procedures for Air Navigation Services — Aerodromes
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Procedural material for the aerodrome domain; read alongside the relevant Annex 14 volume.
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This introductory description is based on the inspected 2021 ICAO catalogue entry. It is not a paragraph-level interpretation of the local PDF.
Catalogue citation: Doc 9981, entry beginning at line 725 in the local text edition of the ICAO Products and Services Catalogue 2021.
Historical catalogue edition: 2nd edition, 2016.
Not comprehensively checked; do not assume the catalogue or local PDF is current.
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