Through the fence operation

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In the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) defines residential through-the-fence, or RTTF, as access granted to a federally obligated, public airfield from private, residential property or property zoned for residential use.^[1] These are usually private hangars, often built adjacent to, or as part of a house, allowing aircraft owners immediate access to their aircraft and an airport, without having to drive to the airport. The aircraft does not actually have to pass through a fence to qualify as an RTTF operation. This term is used only because most federally funded airports have a fence enclosing the entire property, that users on adjacent private property will have to pass through.