NOTAM information on airport equipment outages is issued by which personnel?

• A. Air Traffic personnel
• B. ATM
• C. Tech Ops personnel
• D. Airport Operator

Answer: (C)

The key idea is who manages and communicates outages of airport equipment. Tech Ops personnel are the ones who own and maintain the airport's technical systems—lighting, navigational aids, communications, and related equipment. When an outage or maintenance issue is identified, they assess the problem, implement a workaround or repair, and issue the NOTAM to alert pilots and the air traffic organization about the limitations or unavailability of those facilities. This keeps all flight operations informed and allows ATC and operators to adjust procedures accordingly.

Air Traffic personnel focus on guiding and separating aircraft and coordinating traffic flow; they don’t issue notices about equipment outages. ATM handles overall management and coordination across areas, but the formal notice about specific equipment outages comes from the technical operations side. The airport operator runs daily facility operations, but does not typically issue NOTAMs about equipment outages either.

So, the responsibility lies with Tech Ops because they manage the technical health of the airport’s systems and are the appropriate authority to broadcast outage information through NOTAMs.