This Day in FAA History: November 16th

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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. Eastern Air Lines inaugurated scheduled L-1011 service on April 26, with a flight from Miami to New York. On December 7, 1981, Lockheed announced a phasing out of Tristar production. The 250th and last L-1011 was rolled out on August 19, 1983. The company completed delivery during 1985, with the exception of a single L-1011 (the first one produced) retained by Lockheed until 1986. While ceasing to compete against Boeing and McDonnell Douglas in the commercial transport field, Lockheed remained a major producer of military aircraft.
19731116: Friendship International Airport was renamed Baltimore Washington International. The airport had originally opened on June 24, 1950.
19861116: Effective this date, a Department of Transportation order ended air service between the U.S. and South Africa, as required by the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986. (See August 8, 1991.)
19901116: President Bush signed the Aviation Security Improvement Act of 1990, which: required certain regulatory actions affecting several agencies; mandated new reports, organizational arrangements, and staffing requirements; and empowered FAA to conduct an accelerated research and development program in support of aviation security. (See May 15, 1990, August 15, 1991, and October 1, 1991.)
20011116: FAA issued an emergency airworthiness directive mandating an inspection of the vertical stabilizers and rudders on all Airbus A-300 and A-310 aircraft. The inspections had to be completed within 15 days. In addition to the area where the structural failure in American 587 occurred, the inspections also were focused on the surrounding rudder components and attachment fittings. (See November 12, 2001.)
20091116: FAA finalized a rule, effective November 19, 2009, that separated low-altitude, local aircraft flights over the Hudson River from flights transiting through the river airspace. The rule required pilots to follow safety procedures that were previously recommended, but were not mandatory. In a new Special Flight Rules Area over the Hudson and East Rivers, pilots must
* Maintain a speed of 140 knots or less.
* Turn on anti-collision and aircraft position/navigation lights, if equipped.
* Self-announce their position on specific radio frequencies.
* Carry current charts for the airspace and be familiar with them.
* In an exclusion zone below 1,300 feet over the Hudson River, announce their aircraft type, position, direction, and altitude at charted mandatory reporting points and stay along the New Jersey shoreline when southbound and along the Manhattan shoreline when northbound.
* When transiting the Hudson River, fly at an altitude between 1,000 feet and 1,300 feet and operate local flights in the lower airspace below 1,000 feet.
The rule also incorporated provisions of an October 2006 Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) that restricted fixed-wing aircraft in the exclusion zone over the East River to seaplanes landing or taking off on the river or those specifically approved by FAA air traffic control. (See August 14, 2009.)
20101116: Donald Nyrop, the second administrator of the Civil Aeronautics Administration, died; he was 98. Nyrop joined the CAA in 1939 after graduating from law school and became administrator in 1950. In 1951 he became chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board and three years later because president of Northwest Airlines. He retired from Northwest in 1978. (See October 4, 1950.)
20171116: U.S. Transportation Secretary Chao announced plans to create a pilot program, called “Forces to Flyers,” to help train and certify military veterans as commercial airline pilots.
20171116: Airbus announced that both the European Safety Agency and FAA type certificated its A350-1000.
20221116: FAA adopted a final rule requiring commercial hot-air balloon pilots to hold medical certificates when flying paying passengers. The rule mandated a second-class medical certificate, the same standard required for other commercial pilots.