Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

Federal Aviation Administration chief Randy Babbitt issued Santa Claus a permission to fly over the United States to perform his traditional round-the-world Christmas Eve mission, FAA reported on its Web site.  

WASHINGTON: Federal Aviation Administration chief Randy Babbitt braved snow, ice and foggy conditions at North Pole International Airport to give Santa Claus and his sleigh a thumbs-up for the jolly old pilot’s traditional round-the-world Christmas Eve mission. During a 90-minute check ride, Administrator Babbitt made sure Santa can properly execute the demanding maneuvers and precision [...]  

RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has received type certification from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for its BR725 engine, which powers the world’s fastest civil aircraft, the Gulfstream G650 business jet. The certification covers a thrust rating of 16,100lbf (71.6 kN) and follows certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) in June 2009. FAA certification completes...  

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration is reminding its employees to behave with decorum after hidden television news cameras filmed FAA employees partying while they were in Atlanta for a $5 million training program.The FAA sent 3,600 of its managers to a....  

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration is forming a panel to examine the reliability of a telecommunications network that broke down last month, snarling air traffic across the country. FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt said Tuesday the episode — which resulted in delays of 819 flights — was unacceptable. He said the agency needs to understand what happened so that it can prevent further incidents. FAA...  

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has asked the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Inspector General to investigate why suspect individuals - including terrorists and drug kingpins - have been able to retain their Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) pilot's licenses. In a letter to DHS Inspector General Richard Skinner, the senators cited media reports, including an ABC News investigation, that questioned the ability of the...  

Federal Aviation Administration head Randy Babbitt says it looks like human error was involved in an air traffic computer problem that led to nationwide flight delays on Nov. 19. In a Senate hearing on aviation safety yesterday, Babbitt said an  

WASHINGTON: The top U.S. aviation regulator reiterated his commitment Thursday to enhance pilot-training and fatigue-prevention rules, but the anticipated changes aren’t likely to go as far as some lawmakers have proposed. Federal Aviation Administration chief Randy Babbitt told a Senate subcommittee that he was looking to create a new category of enhanced commercial-pilot licenses for [...]  

Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is the world's busiest airport, serving more than 90 million travelers last year. But it faces one problem shared by airports across the country: finding capable people to manage its air traffic. A new program could help solve the problem.  

OLATHE, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), the global leader in satellite navigation, announced today that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted an approved model list supplemental type certificate (AML-STC) for the Garmin’s TAS and TCAS I traffic systems, the GTS 800, GTS 820 and GTS 850. The initial AML-STC includes approximately 580 different aircraft makes and models and...  

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating how a commercial plane breached the amount of space it was supposed to keep between two other planes in Colorado airspace on Nov. 23. FAA spokesman Mike Fergus says planes at high altitudes are supposed to keep 5 miles of horizontal distance and 1,000 feet of vertical space between them. Fergus said Wednesday that that was "severely broken" when a plane following an air traffic controller's...  

Capt. Timothy Cheney of Gig Harbor, Wash., and First Officer Richard Cole of Salem, Ore., say controllers didn't follow rules and practices contained in the FAA's air traffic control manual and didn't coordinate effectively with Northwest dispatchers.  

Rockland County, NY – Some TOR bus riders may have noticed something different about their trips lately: They’re quieter, smoother and not as polluting. In the past several weeks, the county has been rolling out its new electric hybrid buses. Six of the buses have been rotating along different routes, such as the 59, 93 and [...]  

The House of Representatives passed by voice vote this afternoon a three-month extension of the Federal Aviation Administration's current taxes and programs without contending with a hot-button labor issue of interest to FedEx.  

Federal Aviation Administrator J. Randolph Babbitt on Thursday declined to back a proposal to increase the flight experience required of commercial airline pilots, drawing condemnation from a victims' family group that is fighting for new air safety regulations.