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Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19691028: Executive Order 11490 (“Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions to Federal Departments and Agencies”) consolidated and superseded over 20 previous directives, including Executive Order 11003, which had dealt with FAA’s preparedness functions. (See January 9, 1961.) 19701028: The Departments of Transportation and Treasury agreed that the Bureau of Customs would […]

Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19301025: The first all-air transcontinental through passenger service to link coastal cities began. Aircraft of Transcontinental and Western Air took off simultaneously from Newark Airport, serving New York, and from Los Angeles. On October 15, the American Airways system had begun to offer all-air service between Atlanta and Los […]

Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19311005: Clyde E. Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr., made the first nonstop transpacific flight, as well as the first nonstop flight between Japan and the United States, in a Bellanca Pacemaker. The two men took off from Samushiro Beach, 300 miles north of Tokyo, and landed at Wenatchee, Wash., […]

Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19261001: Northwest Airways began service as a contract mail carrier. The company began passenger service the following year, and expanded its routes in the late twenties and early thirties, changing its name to Northwest Airlines on April 16, 1934. Further expansion included routes to Asia, beginning in the 1940s, […]

Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19380927: The Civil Aeronautics Authority announced that President Roosevelt had approved its recommendation for the immediate construction of a close-in airport to serve the District of Columbia–the Washington National Airport. Expected to serve as a model for the rest of the nation, the new airport would be located at […]

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 […]

Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19290924: At Mitchel Field, N.Y., Army Lt. James H. Doolittle became the first pilot to use only instrument guidance to take off, fly a set course, and land. Doolittle received directional guidance from a radio range course aligned with the airport runway, while radio marker beacons indicated his distance […]

Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19510911: The National Security Resources Board completed its air transport mobilization survey. Developed by a large group of aviation leaders from government and industry, the program outlined requirements for rapid mobilization of the U.S. air transport industry in the event of expanded war. (See December 15, 1951.) 19610911: The […]

Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19600908: FAA issued a new aircraft noise abatement technical planning guide for use by Federal and local officials. The guide discouraged certain kinds of construction in areas around large airports, such as residential subdivisions, schools, churches, hospitals, and other places of public assembly. Land lying immediately under the takeoff […]

Full FAA Chronology at this link. 19580902: The CAA Administrator and the Commander of the Air Force’s Air Defense Command announced the establishment of a program for joint use of 31 new high-power, long-range radar facilities and plans for such joint use of additional facilities in the future. Under the extensive joint-use program, each agency […]