Definition
An FAA system used to track, analyze, and report on charges associated with air traffic services, primarily overflight fees billed to operators of aircraft that transit U.S.-controlled airspace without landing in or departing from the United States.
Plain English
A computer tool the FAA uses to keep track of fees charged to certain aircraft operators and to produce reports on those charges.
Context Anchor
Seen in FAA acronym and abbreviation lists, especially in administrative or reference contexts rather than normal cockpit use.
Why Pilots Care
Most pilots will never interact with BART directly. It matters mainly to operators and dispatchers handling international flights that cross U.S. airspace, since those flights generate overflight fees tracked through this system.
Intuition Check
Do not read BART as a navigation aid, aircraft part, or flight procedure. Here it means an administrative tool for billing analysis and reporting.
Example Sentence 1
The dispatcher reconciled the company's monthly overflight charges using data pulled from the FAA's BART system.
Example Sentence 2
Reports generated by BART helped identify discrepancies in the airport's landing fee collections.