Full FAA Chronology at this link.
19460802: An act of Congress established the National Air Museum under the Smithsonian Institution. In 1976, the name changed to National Air and Space Museum.
19540802: The Convair XFY-1, an experimental VTOL aircraft, made the first free vertical takeoff and landing by a fixed wing aircraft at Moffett NAS, Calif.
19650802: FAA and the Department of Commerce signed a formal agreement on this date updating all FAA and U.S. Weather Bureau working arrangements in the areas of aviation weather services and meteorological communications. (See September 15, 1950.)
