(1) "Aeronautics" means the act or practice of the art and science of transportation by aircraft and operation, construction, repair, or maintenance of aircraft, airports, landing fields, or air navigation facilities, and including repairs, packing, and maintenance of parachutes;

(2) "Air navigation facilities" shall include airports, landing fields, and water surfaces for landing aircraft and all aids to air navigation, including, but not confined to, lights, marks, structures, and electrical communicating systems;

(3) "Aircraft" means any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used, or designed for navigation of or flight in the air, except a parachute or other contrivance designed for such navigation but used primarily as safety equipment;

(4) "Airman" means an individual, including the person in command and any pilot, mechanic, or member of the crew who engages in the operation of aircraft while under way, any individual in charge of the inspecting, overhauling, or repairing of aircraft, or parachute riggers and repairmen;

(5) "Airport" means any locality, either of water or land, which is adapted for the landing and taking off of aircraft and which provides facilities for shelter, supply, and repair of aircraft or a place used regularly for receiving or discharging passengers or cargo by air;

(6) "Civil aircraft" means aircraft not of the military or naval forces of the United States Government and aircraft not used exclusively in any governmental service of any state or country;

(7) "Civil airway" means a route in the navigable air space over or above the territory or waters of the state designated by the department as a route suitable for intrastate or interstate air commerce;

(8) "Department" means the Arkansas Department of Aeronautics;

(9) "Intermediate landing field" means any locality, either of water or land, which is adapted for the landing and taking off of aircraft, is located along any airway, and is intermediate to airports and landing fields connected by the airway but which is not equipped with facilities for shelter, supply, and repair of aircraft and is not used regularly for the receiving or discharging of passengers or cargo by air;

(10) "Landing field" means any locality, either of water or land, which is adapted for the landing and taking off of aircraft, but which is not equipped with facilities for shelter, supply, and repair of aircraft;

(11) "Navigable air space" means the air space above the minimum safe altitudes of flight prescribed by the department;

(12) "Nonresident" shall apply to any person who has no regular place of abode or business within this state for a period longer than thirty (30) days or parts thereof, not necessarily consecutive, in the calendar year;

(13) "Owner" means any person, firm, partnership, or corporation holding title to any aircraft or having legal right to register it;

(14) "Passenger" means any person riding in an aircraft but having no part in its operation;

(15) "Person" means any individual, association, copartnership, firm, company, corporation, or other association of individuals;

(16) "Pilot" means an individual who operates an aircraft in flight or while under way; and

(17) "Secretary" means secretary of the department.