Definition
An internal FAA form used by air traffic facilities to document the official data for a navigation fix, including its location, the airways and routes that use it, holding pattern instructions, minimum holding altitudes, and any associated minimum turning altitudes. It is the source record from which holding and fix information is published on charts and in approach procedures.
Plain English
An FAA paperwork record that captures all the official details about a navigation fix and how aircraft are supposed to hold at it. The information pilots see on charts comes from this record.
Context Anchor
You may see this term in FAA handbook or procedure-design discussions behind instrument charts, especially when the handbook explains where minimum turning altitude information comes from.
Derivation
Fix comes from an older meaning of something made firm or fixed in place. In aviation, a fix is a set position an aircraft can identify. Holding means keeping an aircraft in a defined area or pattern. Record means the official written data kept for that item.
Why Pilots Care
Provides the exact location and holding details required to maintain obstacle clearance during turns or delays at the fix.
Intuition Check
Do not read “record” here as a radio transmission or audio recording. It means an official data entry used to build and support instrument procedure information.
Example Sentence 1
The minimum turning altitude shown on the chart was originally documented in the Radio Fix and Holding Data Record for that fix.
Example Sentence 2
Using the radio fix and holding data record, the crew calculated the minimum turning altitude at the fix.