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19611106: Reflecting increased emphasis on the Federal-aid-to-airports program (see September 20, 1961), FAA established an Airports Service to replace the former Airports Division of the Aviation Facilities Service.
19701106: FAA established a national en route air traffic training program for beginning center controllers. The program, an outgrowth of a Corson Committee recommendation (see January 29, 1970), used the FAA Academy for qualification training and FAA facilities for proficiency training. Its objectives included shortening the training, reducing the high attrition rate among trainees, and making more efficient use of resources. Training was conducted in three phases. The first phase, indoctrination and precontrol, took place at an en route facility and covered noncontrol duties. The second, control, was conducted at the FAA Academy and consisted of a nine-week non-radar and radar control procedures course. The final phase, sector qualification, took place at an en route facility. Previously, controller trainees had been sent directly to the FAA Academy for a nine-week indoctrination course, and then to the centers for on-the-job training running from two to three years.
19791106: FAA proposed a civil penalty of $1.5 million against Braniff Airways for numerous maintenance violations. The fine was the largest that the agency had proposed to that date. In January 1981, however, FAA accepted a settlement of $400,000, stating that its decision was influenced by Braniff’s safety improvements.
19961106: FAA announced its approval of operational use of the Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) on all Boeing 757 aircraft operated by American Airlines, the first carrier to receive such permission. (See December 20, 1995.)
19981106: President Clinton dedicated the new Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport in Highfill, Arkansas. He told the audience his administration was working to make the national aviation system better able to handle the anticipated 50-percent increase in global air travel in the coming seven years. He added that FAA and other agencies were working together “… to convert our air traffic control system to satellite technology, to change the way we inspect older aircraft, and most important over the long run, to combat terrorism with new equipment, new agents, and new methods.”
20101106: Quentin Taylor, a long-time FAA executive died. Taylor started at the FAA in 1958. He served as the agency’s first manager of the Office of Civil Rights, later as deputy director of the FAA’s Alaska region, and director of its New England region. In 1977, he became the FAA’s deputy administrator. He later became director of the Office of International Aviation and then deputy associate administrator for airports. He retired in 1999. (See May 4, 1977.)
20191106: Epic Aircraft announced FAA had granted type certification to its E1000 all-carbon fiber aircraft design.
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This Day in FAA History: November 6th
