This Day in FAA History: November 23rd

Full FAA Chronology at this link.
19461123: The Martin 2-0-2 made its first flight. On August 13, 1947, CAA type-certificated the aircraft, a two-engine transport designed for the short-haul passenger market. The airplane entered service a year later with Northwest Airlines. The Martin was the first airliner to operate on postwar passenger routes that had not seen service during World War II.
19591123: The Strategic Air Command began using seven special air routes established for its use by FAA to carry out day and night, all-weather, low-altitude training missions. The routes for Operation Oil Burner, code name for these SAC radar bomb runs over simulated targets throughout the country, were laid out to avoid congested population and airport centers to the maximum extent possible.
19591123: The Boeing 720 first flew. On June 30, 1960, FAA certificated the 720, a four-engine medium-range jet transport with a maximum capacity of 140 passengers. The plane entered scheduled service with United Airlines on July 5, 1960.
19711123: A Federal arbitrator approved a two-man cockpit crew for Aloha’s 737 flights, basing his decision on the low-density, fair-weather conditions under which Aloha operated. On May 8, 1973, however, a federal arbitrator’s ruling in another dispute approved a three-man crew for the 737 flights of Wien Air Alaska. (See July 21, 1969 and November 18-27, 1974.)
19851123: An unusually bloody hijacking began when three men seized control of an Egyptair 737 with 98 persons aboard shortly after takeoff from Athens. In a midair gunfight, one hijacker was killed and an Egyptian security guard and two flight attendants were wounded. The hijackers demanded to fly to Libya or Tunisia, but agreed to refuel at Malta. In an attempt to force Maltese authorities to supply the fuel, the hijackers shot five hostages, killing two of them, including an American woman. After 22 hours of negotiation, an Egyptian military force stormed the plane. During the rescue action, 57 persons were killed and about 30 others injured.
19931123: Linda H. Daschle became the Deputy Administrator of FAA. President Clinton had announced his intention to nominate Daschle on October 25, and the Senate had confirmed her appointment on November 20.
Born in Oklahoma, Daschle began her career as a weather observer for FAA while attending Kansas State University. During the early 1980’s, she became the first woman to direct the Civil Aeronautics Board’s Office of Congressional, Community, and Consumer Affairs. Daschle later served as director of Federal affairs at the Air Transport Association of America. She was also active in civic affairs and in the campaigns of her husband, Sen. Tom Daschle (D.-S.D.). When chosen for the FAA post, she was senior vice president in charge of Federal and environmental affairs for the American Association of Airport Executives. (See November 9, 1996.)
19981123: FAA certified the eXaminer 3DX 6000 system manufactured by L-3 Communications as the second explosives detection system to meet the agency’s certification requirements. (See November 20, 1998; March 31, 1999.)
20021123: FAA issued an emergency airworthiness directive for Boeing 737- 600s and -700s, 700Cs, 900s, 747s, and 757s after two fuel tank pumps on separate 747s showed “extreme localized overheating of parts.” The AD gave carriers four days to comply. The parts in question were located in the priming and vapor pump section of the fuel pump. FAA said the likely cause of the overheating was friction between the pump parts but found no specific cause. (See June 6, 2001; July 30, 2004.)
20061123: Runway 14/32 opened at General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport.
20091123: FAA issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that would require scheduled airlines to either retrofit their existing fleet with ice-detection equipment or make sure the ice protection system activated at the proper time. For aircraft with an ice-detection system, FAA proposed that the system alert the crew when they should activate the system. The system would either turn on automatically or pilots would manually activate it. For aircraft without ice-detection equipment, the crew would activate the protection system based on cues listed in their airplane’s flight manual during climb and descent, and at the first sign of icing when at cruising altitude. FAA estimated the rule would cost operators about $5.5 million to implement. Operators would have two years after the final rule was effective to make the changes. The proposed rule would apply only to in-service aircraft with a takeoff weight less than 60,000 pounds, because most larger airplanes already had equipment that met the requirements. (See April 26, 2007; December 1, 2009.)
20091123: FAA withdrew a previously published notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) designed to establish consistent and clear duty period limitations, flight time limitations, and rest requirements for domestic, flag, supplemental, commuter, and on-demand operations. In June 2009, FAA had chartered the Flight and Duty Time Limitations and Rest Requirements Aviation Rulemaking Committee, comprised of labor, industry, and FAA representatives, to develop recommendations for a rule based on current fatigue science and a thorough review of international approaches to the issue. (See June 15, 2009; August 1, 2010.)
20091123: FAA began using its automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) system in Louisville, marking the first time U.S. controllers used this technology for handling traffic on a continuous basis. (See November 24, 2008; January 12, 2010.)
20101123: FAA issued an advisory circular (AC 150/5220-25) requiring that radars used for airport wildlife hazard programs must be capable of tracking 1,000 targets simultaneously. The tracking capability within an area 0.3 to 3 nautical miles was a minimum standard set by the 50-page advisory circular, a mandatory document for airports that accepted federal funding or levy passenger facility charges.
20131123: China declared an East China Sea Air Identification Zone, and said unannounced flight in the area would face “defensive emergency measures.” On November 29, the U.S. State Department issued a statement saying U.S. airlines should respect a Chinese order to notify Beijing of flights through international airspace where the country recently claimed jurisdiction.
20151123: The State Department issued a worldwide alert to American citizens traveling abroad. Officials warned that the “likelihood of terror attacks will continue as members of ISIL/Da’esh return from Syria and Iraq. Additionally, there is a continuing threat from unaffiliated persons planning attacks inspired by major terrorist organizations but conducted on an individual basis.” The travel alert was to expire on February 24, 2016. (See November 13, 2015).
20151123: GSA announced it had signed a lease to move FAA’s Northwest Mountain Regional Headquarters from Renton, WA, to Des Moines, WA. The new building, when completed in 2018, would consolidate regional employees into one facility. (See June 8, 2016.)
20151123: FAA’s drone task force recommended, among other things, that
1. Drones between 0.55 pound and 55 pounds operated outdoors needed to be registered.
2. The free registration was owner-based, so a number of drones could be registered to one owner.
3. Registration would be mandatory at the time of operation and not the point of sale.
4. Minimum age to register was 13.
5. A registration certificate would be mailed to the owner.
6. The registration number would need to be put on each drone.
FAA planned to use the recommendations, as well as public input, to draft a proposed drone rule. (See October 29, 2015; December 14, 2015.)
20161123: FAA issued a request for information seeking vendors of remote air traffic control tower systems to compete for a contract to build a system at Northern Colorado Regional Airport. FAA said the remote tower system must allow controllers to provide Class D services with a facility that is local or remote to the airport. FAA was already evaluating a remote-tower demonstration project run by Saab and the State of Virginia at the Leesburg Executive Airport. (See March 1, 2015; September 29, 2021.)
20221123: FAA announced that the Republic of Rwanda had achieved an International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) Category 1 rating and complies with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards.