SIDA Badge | Questions and Answers |
2026 Update | Final Revision Guide
‣ Aircraft -✓✓Fixed wing aircraft
‣ examples of aircrafts -✓✓747, 777, A320, A380, jet, propeller aircraft,
helicopter
‣ Air Operations Area (AOA) -✓✓Aircraft movement areas, air craft parking,
aircraft loading ramps, aircraft safety areas, and any adjacent
‣ PAPD -✓✓Airport police department
‣ Airport security manager -✓✓Primary contact for security-related
activities, communications, training, and compliance with TSA regulations
‣ Airport security program (ASP) -✓✓Requires and approved by the TSA.
Airports must follow approved programs and ensure those security
measures outlined in the program are completed by all tenants and users
of the Airport
‣ Airfield -✓✓Part of the AOA, support aircraft operations like runways and
taxiways
‣ Challenge -✓✓Demand to produce/display the security ID card.
Personnel with an airport security ID cars are required to challenge anyone
not appropriately displaying the ID badge
‣ Challenge procedure -✓✓the process by which individual(s) with
unescorted access to the restricted areas of the airport are required to
identify and communicate with, approach, and/or point out to appropriate
authorities, individual(s) or vehicles present in restricted areas but not
displaying airport approved identification.
‣ Escort -✓✓When an individual that has airport approval to escort
individual(s) or accompany or monitor the activities of individual(s) who do
not have unescorted access to the restricted area.
2026 Update | Final Revision Guide
‣ Aircraft -✓✓Fixed wing aircraft
‣ examples of aircrafts -✓✓747, 777, A320, A380, jet, propeller aircraft,
helicopter
‣ Air Operations Area (AOA) -✓✓Aircraft movement areas, air craft parking,
aircraft loading ramps, aircraft safety areas, and any adjacent
‣ PAPD -✓✓Airport police department
‣ Airport security manager -✓✓Primary contact for security-related
activities, communications, training, and compliance with TSA regulations
‣ Airport security program (ASP) -✓✓Requires and approved by the TSA.
Airports must follow approved programs and ensure those security
measures outlined in the program are completed by all tenants and users
of the Airport
‣ Airfield -✓✓Part of the AOA, support aircraft operations like runways and
taxiways
‣ Challenge -✓✓Demand to produce/display the security ID card.
Personnel with an airport security ID cars are required to challenge anyone
not appropriately displaying the ID badge
‣ Challenge procedure -✓✓the process by which individual(s) with
unescorted access to the restricted areas of the airport are required to
identify and communicate with, approach, and/or point out to appropriate
authorities, individual(s) or vehicles present in restricted areas but not
displaying airport approved identification.
‣ Escort -✓✓When an individual that has airport approval to escort
individual(s) or accompany or monitor the activities of individual(s) who do
not have unescorted access to the restricted area.
