Robbins

MEMORANDUM ***

Robert Charles Robbins petitions for review of an opinion and order by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) affirming an administrative law judge’s (ALJ) decision and order revoking all of Robbins’s federal airman certificates. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 49 U.S.C. §§ 1153 (a) and 44709(f), and we deny Robbins’s petition.

I

Robbins argues that the NTSB erred by affirming the ALJ’s decision to take notice of Federal Aviation Regulations which establish that Robbins’s admittedly fraudulent entry in an aircraft maintenance log was in a report that was “required to be made” in violation of 14 C.F.R. § 43.12 (a)(1), rather than requiring the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to prove this fact.

Robbins’s argument is without merit because § 43.12(a)(1) prohibits “[a]ny fraudulent or intentionally false entry in any record or report that is required to be made, kept, or used to show compliance with any requirement under this part....” 14 C.F.R. § 43.12 (a)(1). In addition, 14 C.F.R. § 43.11 requires that a person performing the type of annual inspection at issue here “shall make an entry in the maintenance record of that equipment”…