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Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19481229: CAA revealed details of a U.S.-U.K. agreement based on previous action by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The United Kingdom agreed to install an airway and traffic control system similar to that then in use in the United States. The United States would procure four low-frequency radio […]
Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19261207: The Aeronautics Branch made its first official airworthiness inspection of an American aircraft when Inspector Ralph Lockwood tested a Stinson Detroiter before its delivery to Canadian Air Express. 19261207: The first airway light beacon erected by the Aeronautics Branch began operation. The beacon was located 15 miles northeast […]
Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19351201: A consortium of airline companies organized and manned the first airway traffic control center at Newark, N.J. It provided information to airline pilots on the whereabouts of planes other than their own in the Newark vicinity during weather conditions requiring instrument flying. Two additional centers, similarly organized and […]
Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19281130: Fred E. Weick, an aerodynamicist at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, described in National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Technical Note No. 301 the testing of long-chord cowling that significantly reduced drag, the retarding force acting on an airplane moving in air. Unlike conventional cowlings of that period, […]
Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19291129: Richard E. Byrd, with pilot Bernt Balchen and two other crew members, became the first to fly over the South Pole, operating a Ford Trimotor from the U.S. base at Little America. Earlier, on May 9, 1926, Byrd and Floyd Bennett had made a flight credited as the […]
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 […]
Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19651121: FAA renamed the Civil Aeromedical Research Institute (CARI) the Civil Aeromedical Institute (CAMI). (See October 21, 1962.) 19671121: A Pan American World Airways jet flying the North Atlantic successfully used NASA’s ATS III, one of a series of application research satellites, as an air-ground-air radio voice relay. The […]
Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19511112: Pursuant to Executive Order 10219 (February 28), the Department of Commerce established the Defense Air Transportation Administration to plan and direct the mobilization of U.S. civil aviation resources for effective utilization in the event of war. 19701112: The National Transportation Safety Board released the results of a 1969 […]
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. 19271031: The International Radio Convention met in Washington, D.C. During sessions that lasted into November, the conferees secured international agreements on the use of certain frequencies by aircraft and airway control stations. As a result, it was necessary to reassign frequencies to the Airways Division of the Aeronautics Branch […]