This page provides links to external resources that may be useful in the process of aircraft noise certification, specifically some international standards documents that must be purchased from their respective organizations’ web stores.

FAA links are included for reference, but the documents are available for free download on the Resources page.

ANSI – American National Standards Institute

• ANSI S1.4 Sound Level Meters
• ANSI S1.11 Octave Band & Fractional Octave Band Filters
• ANSI S1.40 Sound Calibrators

FAA - Federal Aviation Administration

• 14CFR part 36
• AC36-4D

ICAO - International Civil Aviation Organization

• Annex 16, Vol. I
• Environmental Technical Manual, Vol. I

IEC – International Electrotechnical Committee

• IEC Electropedia – Online Electro-Technical Vocabulary: Acoustics
• IEC 60942 Sound Calibrators
• IEC 61672-1 Sound Level Meters
• IEC 61260-1 Octave Band & Fractional Octave Band Filters
• IEC 61265 Instruments for Measurement of Aircraft Noise

SAE International

• SAE AIR902A – Photographic positioning
• SAE ARP866A – Atmospheric absorption (current)
• SAE ARP5534 – Application of Pure-Tone Atmospheric Absorption Losses to One-Third Octave-Band Data (future)