When responding to inquiries to AOPA’s Legal Services Plan or writing legal articles, AOPA’s attorneys (myself included) often reference FAA guidance documents, statutes, regulations, and caselaw. If you have ever wondered how AOPA’s attorneys find this information or would like to conduct your own research, you may be interested to know that there is no secret vault of information requiring a bar-card (i.e., license to practice law) to access. Rather, a large majority of these resources are publicly available. Below are some of commonly accessed and publicly available resources to which we often refer (in no particular order):