This Day in FAA History: September 13th

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19340913: Following a conclusive demonstration of an Army Air Corps blind-landing system, the Bureau of Air Commerce adopted that system as its standard. The demonstration marked the conclusion of eleven months work by the Bureau in which it tested various systems and modifications for blind landing using a Ford tri-motor transport. (See March 1, 1933, and May 2, 1940.)
19480913: To speed certification of aircraft and aircraft parts, CAA announced that type certificates would be issued in its nine regions rather than at headquarters in Washington, D.C.
19570913: CAA held demonstrations of scan conversion equipment under evaluation at its Technical Development Center, Indianapolis. The equipment was designed to improve radar display techniques. (See April 27, 1960.)
19730913: FAA abolished the Office of Headquarters Operations, effective this date, assigning its functions and responsibilities to other offices and services: (l) accounting to a new Office of Accounting and Audit; (2) personnel to the Office of Personnel; (3) security to the Office of Air Transportation Security; (4) data processing to the Office of Management Systems; (5) property management to the Logistics Service; (6) information functions to the new Office of Information Services. (See July 1, 1963.)
19950913: The United States and the Netherlands signed the world’s first bilaterial aviation safety agreement (BASA), a new type of agreement aimed at promoting safety by creating a regulatory partnership. The BASA included provisions on increased cooperation in such areas as aircraft certification and the approval and/or monitoring of airmen, training, flight operations, and maintenance facilities. By the end of 1996, the United States had concluded five more BASAs with Britain, Germany, France, Malaysia, and Switzerland.
20020913: Marion C. Blakey was sworn in as the 15th Administrator of FAA. (See August 2, 2002.)
20020913: Monte Belger, long-serving acting FAA deputy administrator retired. Belger worked for FAA for more than 30 years. He joined the agency in 1972 as a security inspector in Tampa, Florida. From 1980 to 1988, he held three senior management positions in the Great Lakes region. In 1992, he was named executive director for acquisitions and safety oversight. Since 1995, Belger had been associate administrator for air traffic services, responsible for the daily operations of the national airspace system. In 1998, he was named acting deputy administrator. (See August 2, 2002; November 2, 2002.)
20070913: Marion Blakey left FAA after serving her five-year term. Robert Sturgell became acting administrator. (See September 13, 2002; September 24, 2007; October 23, 2007; February 7,2008.)
20110913: Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and Australian Ambassador to the United States Kim Beazley signed a memorandum of agreement to continue research and development of clean, sustainable alternative aviation fuels. The agreement called for Australia and the United States to exchange information about policies, programs, projects, research results, and publications, and to conduct joint studies in areas such as fuel sources and environmental impacts. The memorandum also facilitated analysis of fuel source supply chains. (See October 21, 2010; November 7, 2011.)
20130913: Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx announced the selection of a team of universities to lead a new FAA air transportation center of excellence (COE) for alternate jet fuels and the environment. Led by Washington State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the COE would explore ways to meet the environmental and energy goals in NextGen. FAA’s COE program was a cost-sharing research partnership between academia, industry and the federal government. FAA anticipated providing this COE with $4 million a year for each of the 10 years of the program. Core team partners included Boston University, Oregon State University, Purdue University, the University of Dayton, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Washington, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania State University, Stanford University, the University of Hawaii, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Tennessee. (See August 14, 2013; August 22, 2013; September 18, 2013; December 3, 2013; December 9, 2021.)
20170913: A FAA mobile tower began operations at the Cyril E. King International Airport in St. Thomas to provide air traffic services for all of the aircraft operating in and out of Key West in support of the relief and recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Irma. The existing air traffic control tower at the airport was badly damaged by the storm, and controllers managed air traffic from a tent on the airfield for several days before the mobile tower arrived. FAA shuttled controllers back and forth from San Juan, Puerto Rico to St. Thomas every day to staff the facility. In addition to the air traffic controllers, FAA sent an airport certification safety inspector to St. Thomas to ensure the airport was safe before air carrier operations resumed.
20190913: Secretary Chao announced the formation of the Air Ambulance and Patient Billing Advisory Committee. The committee will advise the Secretary about issues relating to air ambulance services and patient billing, review options to improve the disclosure of charges and fees for air medical services, better inform consumers of insurance options for such services, and protect consumers from balance billing. Based on its review, the committee will make recommendations regarding disclosure of charges and fees for air ambulance services and insurance coverage, as well as consumer protection and enforcement authorities of both the DOT and state authorities, and the prevention of balance billing to consumers.
20210913: DOT announced it would offer $482.3 million in funding to 313 aerospace businesses, under the Aviation Manufacturing Jobs Protection Program, a new jobs-saving program created as part of the Biden-Harris administration’s American Rescue Plan. The funding went to companies based in 37 states and Puerto Rico. On November 8, DOT said it would offer an additional $184 million in funding provided by the American Rescue Plan to 158 more aviation manufacturing businesses. The program had already helped protect nearly 30,000 American manufacturing jobs across 41 states and Puerto Rico.
20230913: FAA gave U.S. drone operators a six-month extension to March 16, 2024, to equip their aircraft with remote identification modules.