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19561120: CAA announced that it had awarded a $9 million contract for 23 long-range radars, the agency’s largest single purchase of electronic equipment to that date. The new radars were to be used primarily for en route air traffic control purposes.
19731120: A seven-point jet fuel conservation plan designed to save up to 20,000 barrels (840,000) gallons of jet fuel per day went into effect. Implemented in response to President Nixon’s national campaign to conserve fuel in the aftermath of the Arab petroleum embargo (see October 6, 1973), the plan
*Revised gate holding procedures to reduce the time aircraft spent with engines running while awaiting takeoff.
*Revised air traffic flow procedures to reduce time spent aloft in holding patterns.

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19631119: Responding to requests from U.S. and foreign carriers for priority deliveries of the U.S. supersonic transport (SST) when it became available, FAA established a delivery priorities system for the first 70 airliners to come off the production line. The agency stated it was acting as intermediary for the airlines pending final selection of a manufacturer to make the SST available at an early time to the broadest possible market, while maintaining a reasonable balance of distribution been U.S. and foreign carriers. (See August 15, 1963, and January 15, 1964.)
20011119: President George W. Bush signed into law the Aviation and Transportation Security Act (Public Law 107-71), which, among other things, called for the establishment of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in the Department of Transportation, to be responsible for security at airports. The act also broadened AIP eligibility to include costs for additional security-related activity required by law or the Secretary of Transportation.

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19691118: FAA changed the title of the Office of Compliance and Security to the Office of Investigations and Security. (See May 16, 1962 and August 3, 1970.)
19711118: Public Law 92-159 prohibited airborne hunting of birds, fish, and other animals. The act prescribed criminal penalties for shooting, attempted shooting, or harassing of wildlife from an aircraft.
19881118: After receiving information eight days earlier from West German authorities, FAA issued an aviation security bulletin, describing a cassette recorder containing a barometric detonating device that could be set to explode when an airliner reached a certain altitude. Such a device had been discovered by German authorities in an October 26 anti-terrorist sweep.

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19621117: Ceremonies marked the opening of Dulles International Airport. Scheduled airline service began two days later. Air carrier operations reached a daily level of 72 by mid-1963, and operations of all types for fiscal 1964 totaled 111,071. (See July 15, 1959.)
19651117: In a flight sponsored by Rockwell-Standard, a Boeing B-707 became the first aircraft to girdle the globe going north to south, covering 26,230 miles in 62 hours 28 minutes. Beginning in Honolulu, the flight flew over the North Pole, made stops at London, Lisbon, and Buenos Aires, flew over the South Pole, and returned to Honolulu by way of Christchurch, New Zealand.
19951117: DOT announced a plan to implement congressionally-mandated reductions in Essential Air Service subsidies in a manner designed to maintain the highest possible level of service to communities eligible under the program, which had been established by the Airline Deregulation Act (see October 24, 1978).

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19261116: Dr. Louis Hopewell Bauer became the first Medical Director of the Aeronautics Branch. A major in the Medical Corps at the time of his appointment, Dr. Bauer had spent more than half of his 13- year Army career in the Air Service. (See February 28, 1927.)
19561116: CAA and the USAF Air Defense Command agreed on ground rules to guide a permanent Joint Radar Planning Group charged with developing programs for the joint use of civil and military radar in air traffic control. The agreement followed extensive study by the two agencies, including joint surveys and tests of operating radar facilities and operational evaluation programs conducted at CAA’s Technical Development Center at Indianapolis. (See February 20, 1956, and January 9, 1958.)
19701116: The Lockheed TriStar L-1011 first flew. On April 14, 1972, FAA type-certificated the three-engine wide-body jet with a maximum capacity of 260 passengers.

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19261115: The Post Office invited bids from private operators to take over the transcontinental air mail route in two sections: San Francisco-Chicago and Chicago-New York. Although no satisfactory bids were received for the Chicago-New York route, the contract for the San Francisco-Chicago route went to the organizers of Boeing Air Transport on January 29, 1927. After new biding, the Post Office on April 3, 1927, announced the award of the Chicago-New York route to the newly formed National Air Transport. (See August 31, 1927.)
19551115: The Civil Aeronautics Board gave the new name of supplemental air carriers to those charter operators previously designated large irregular carriers (see September 15, 1946).

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19351114: Representatives of all segments of the aviation community, except manufacturers, met at the Commerce Building in Washington, D.C., with Bureau of Air Commerce officials to discuss airway traffic control. Although the conferees agreed that the Bureau should establish a uniform system of air traffic control, a lack of funding prevented it from assuming control. Director of Air Commerce Vidal convinced the airline operators to establish airway traffic control immediately and promised that in 90 to 120 days the Bureau of Air Commerce would take over the operations. (See March 24, 1936.) On November 15, Vidal approved an interairline air traffic agreement between carriers flying the Chicago-Cleveland-Newark airway. He also relaxed the general ban on instrument flying by private fliers (see November 1, 1935). Those pilots could now fly by instruments if they filed a flight plan with the Bureau of Air Commerce and with at least one airline flying over the route they planned to use.
19561114: At its annual convention, the Air Line Pilots Association changed its policy to allow mechanic-trained flight engineers eligible for membership.

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19681113: President-elect Richard M. Nixon announced that “a first priority of my Administration will be to strengthen our air-controller force, improve their working conditions and provide them with new equipment they need to keep our airways safe.”
19741113: In an action to reduce the bird hazard to aviation, FAA announced guidelines aimed at banning garbage dumps or sanitary landfills within 10,000 ft. of runways used by turbojets and 5,000 ft. of those used by piston-engine aircraft. FAA personnel were instructed to inform airport operators that dumps or landfills closer than these limits should be closed.

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19511112: Pursuant to Executive Order 10219 (February 28), the Department of Commerce established the Defense Air Transportation Administration to plan and direct the mobilization of U.S. civil aviation resources for effective utilization in the event of war.
19701112: The National Transportation Safety Board released the results of a 1969 inquiry into the cause and prevention of midair collisions. The Board concluded that “no one solution is available to the aviation community which will result in the elimination of all midair collisions.”

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20081111: The new Indianapolis International Airport opened. Construction funds came from $120 million in federal grants, airport revenue bonds, and passenger head taxes. More than 1,100 residences were bought for the $220 million project, which started in 1987. Parallel runways opened in the 1990s, and after 9/11, the terminal design changed to accommodate improved security. A new air traffic control tower and TRACON opened in 2006.
20101111: Colombia became the United States’ 100th Open-Skies partner when representatives of the two countries reached agreement to liberalize U.S.-Colombia air services for airlines of both countries. Once full Open Skies took effect at the end of 2012, airlines from the United States and Colombia would be allowed to select routes, destinations and prices for both passenger and cargo service based on consumer demand and market conditions. (See July 2, 2010; December 3, 2010.)