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Radar Service Termination

JO 7110.65BB, Change 3, effective July 9, 2026 · Official text on faa.gov

  1. Inform aircraft when radar service is terminated.
  2. Radar service is automatically terminated and the aircraft needs not be advised of termination when:
    1. An aircraft cancels its IFR flight plan, except within Class B airspace, Class C airspace, TRSA, or where basic radar service is provided.
    2. An aircraft conducting an instrument, visual, or contact approach has landed or has been instructed to change to advisory frequency.
    3. At tower‐controlled airports where radar coverage does not exist to within 1/2 mile of the end of the runway, arriving aircraft must be informed when radar service is terminated.
    4. TERMINAL. An arriving VFR aircraft receiving radar service to a tower‐controlled airport within Class B airspace, Class C airspace, TRSA, or where basic radar service is provided has landed, or to all other airports, is instructed to change to tower or advisory frequency.
    5. TERMINAL. An aircraft completes a radar approach.