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19571029: The President approved actions of the Airways Modernization Board, taken in accordance with provisions of its basic statute, which transferred to the AMB certain funds and all functions of the Air Navigation Development Board along with several research and development programs of the Departments of Defense and Commerce relating to air traffic control. Subsequent presidentially approved orders transferring additional funds and ATC projects from the DOD. (See May 23, 1948, January 1954, and August 14, 1957.)
19601029: A chartered Curtiss-Wright Super C-46F crashed at Toledo, Ohio, killing 22 of the 48 persons aboard, including 18 members of the California State Polytechnic College football team.

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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Order 11490 (“Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions to Federal Departments and Agencies”) consolidated and superseded over 20 previous directives, including Executive Order 11003, which had dealt with FAA’s preparedness functions.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 recruit and train a permanent force of customs security officers who would be assigned to FAA for service as sky marshals aboard commercial passenger flights (see August 10, 1961).

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19691027: FAA denied PATCO’s request for formal recognition because of its participation in the recent “sickout” (see June 18-20). On October 29, however, President Nixon issued Executive Order 11491, replacing Executive Order 10988 as the basis for Federal employee-management relations. The order, which went into effect on January 1, 1970, gave the Labor Department authority to grant exclusive recognition to Federal unions. (See February 18, 1970.)
19721027: Enactment of Public Law 92-574, the Noise Control Act of 1972, defined the respective responsibilities of FAA and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the control of aircraft noise. EPA’s role under the act was to recommend noise standards to FAA based on considerations of public health and welfare.

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19731026: FAA published a rule requiring newly produced aircraft of older type designs, such as the DC-9 or Boeing 727, to meet noise standards for turbojet and transport aircraft. The standards had previously applied only to newly type-certificated aircraft, under a rule effective December 1, 1969 (see that date). The new rule became effective in three phases between December 1, 1973, and December 31, 1974. (See January 6, 1975.)
19821026: FAA announced a contract with Burroughs Corp. to equip the agency’s district safety offices with a computerized information processing system that would allow safety inspectors to spend more of their time on field work rather than on preparing and analyzing reports.

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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 Angeles.
20071025: FAA announced that 23 schools were now participating in the agency’s air traffic Collegiate Training Initiative (CTI) program, part of a broader effort by the agency to recruit, train, and hire controllers. CTI schools were accredited to offer a non-engineering aviation degree in aviation programs.

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19291024: A stock market convulsion gripped Wall Street. The initial crash was followed by another severe break on October 29, and by a continuing slide that heralded the onset of the Great Depression. Aviation stocks, as others, were strongly affected.
The Depression’s impact on the budget of the Aeronautics Branch was not immediate. To get underway in fiscal 1927, the Branch had received $550,000, and this was increased to $3,791,500 in fiscal 1928 and $5,575,400 in fiscal 1929. The increases continued after the Depression began: fiscal 1930, $6,676,320; fiscal 1931, $9,208,030; and fiscal 1932, $10,362,300.
The economizing ax fell in fiscal 1933, when Congress reduced the Aeronautics Branch allocation to $8,533,500.

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19461023: At the request of the Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization (PICAO), representatives of 60 foreign countries attended demonstrations of U.S. air navigation and air traffic control equipment and techniques at CAA’s Technical Development and Evaluation Center at Indianapolis. These detailed demonstrations helped influence the decision, taken later by the delegates at Montreal, to recommend acceptance of the systems and techniques proposed by the United States as international standards.
19681023: The National Transportation Safety Board announced that aircraft accident investigation reports would be available, upon request, to the public. The Board took this action to make the disclosure of aircraft accident information consistent with the Freedom of Information Act.

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19421022: Westinghouse Electric began development of two 19A axial-flow turbojet powerplants, the first practical jet engine wholly American in design.
19621022: President Kennedy made a national broadcast on the Cuban missile crisis and U.S. “quarantine” of Cuba. On the previous day, FAA had set up a temporary air traffic control tower at Key West about 5 hours after receiving a request for this action to assist military operations. During the crisis, the Miami air route traffic control center became a focal control point for air operations to support preparedness.

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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, 1935, and April 28, 1937.)
19501021: During this seven-day period, CAA put into operation the first omnirange (VOR) airways (see Calendar Year 1947). Although 271 omniranges had already been commissioned in different parts of the United States, this marked the initial designation of a chain of these ranges as a controlled airway.

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19521020: Pan American World Airways announced its order for three British jet airliners, de Havilland Comet IIIs, to be delivered in 1956. (See October 13, 1955.)
19661020: FAA type-certificated the 206A Bell JetRanger, a five-place, rotary-wing, turbine-powered general-purpose helicopter. This highly successful helicopter had first flown on January 10, 1966.
19721020: The Federal Labor Relations Council certified PATCO as the sole bargaining unit for air traffic controllers. (See February 7, 1972, and March 17, 1973.)