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Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19331124: The Aeronautics Branch announced an airport development program to be undertaken in cooperation with the Civil Works Administration. Since one purpose of the program was to provide work immediately to the unemployed, the Branch urged municipalities wishing to acquire landing fields to apply within the next two weeks. […]
Full FAA Chronology at this link. 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, […]
Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19471103: A commission of the International Civil Aviation Organization met in Geneva to consider proposals for a multilateral civil aviation agreement to replace the existing system of bilateral agreements by which traffic rights for scheduled commercial air services were established. Differing views concerning the so-called Fifth Freedom–the privilege of […]
Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19291021: Colonial Flying Service and the Scully Walton Ambulance Company of New York, N.Y., inaugurated an Air Ambulance Service. 19361021: Pan American Airways initiated regular weekly transpacific passenger service as the Hawaii Clipper took of from Almeda, near San Francisco, arriving at Manila on October 27. (See November 22-29, […]
Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19661017: Effective this date, FAA required pilots to have a helicopter instrument rating to operate a helicopter under Instrument Flight Rules conditions. 19711017: Opening of the first officially designated STOLport solely for short takeoff and landing aircraft took place at Disney World, near Orlando, Fla. (The term “STOLport” had […]
Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19461008: CAA announced the opening of 44 new district offices for the administration of the Federal-aid airport program (FAAP). Of these, 43 were located within the United States and one in Puerto Rico. CAA also established Airport branches in its regional offices at Honolulu and Anchorage. (See May 13, […]
Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19431003: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics’ Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory completed the first U.S.-built afterburner for jet engines. 19671003: Maj. William J. Knight, USAF, piloting the X-15 rocket plane, set an unofficial world record of 4,534 miles an hour, almost seven times the speed of sound. (See July […]
Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19360930: Three reporters left New York City to journey around the world as passengers. Herbert R. Ekins, who made all major links by air, arrived back in 18 days, 14 hours, 56 minutes. Dorothy Kilgallen and Leo Kieran made surface connections that included a sea voyage from Hong Kong […]
Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19680928: Under provisions of a rule effective this date, FAA required an approved altitude alerting system to be installed on all U.S. civil turbojet aircraft by February 29, 1972. Aided by this device, a pilot climbing or descending to a preselected altitude would be alerted, by signals to both […]
Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19640926: The Bureau of Budget released the first significant amount of hardware-procurement funds for modernizing the National Airspace System (NAS). These funds were specifically designated for installing the first complete NAS En Route Stage A configuration (FAA’s semiautomated system for en route air traffic control) at the ARTCC at […]