This Day in FAA History: October 13th

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19551013: The aviation industry learned that Pan American World Airways had placed the first order for jet airliners to be produced in the United States, ordering both the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8. (See October 20, 1952.)
19611013: FAA commissioned a CONSOLAN long-range navigation aid for service at Miami, Fla. The new station reduced the gap in radio navigation facilities covering the North and South Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean, in addition to strengthening coverage of the U.S. east coast.
20011013: Joint teams comprised of officials from FAA and Department of Transportation Inspector General began auditing background checks of Argenbright Security, Inc., employees at 13 U.S. airports. Recent FAA audits of Argenbright found background check violations at these airports. The action followed a petition filed by Assistant U.S. Attorney John Pease on Thursday, October 11, with the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia that ordered Argenbright officials to answer charges that they continued to violate a probation agreement regarding the hiring of screeners without first performing appropriate background checks or providing training. In the following weeks, separate FAA teams began auditing background checks of all U.S. airport security screeners, starting with those employed at the nation’s 20 largest airports. The initial 13 airports were: Boston Logan International, Port Columbus International (Columbus, Ohio), Eastern Iowa (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Dallas/Fort Worth International, Detroit Metro Wayne County, Las Vegas McCarran International, Los Angeles International, Nashville International, New York LaGuardia, Phoenix Sky Harbor International, Seattle-Tacoma International, Trenton-Mercer and Washington Dulles International. Future background checks would be audited to make sure screeners were properly hired according to FAA standards. (See October 4, 2001; October 18, 2001.)
20041013: The President signed into law the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Hurricane Disaster Assistance Act, 2005 (Public Law 108-324) as part of the FY 2005 Military Construction Appropriations Act. The law authorized emergency capital funding to compensate airport sponsors for capital costs for replacement or repair of public-use facilities directly related to damage caused by Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne.
20151013: Dutch Safety Board Chairman Tjibbe Joustra said Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed on July 2014 “as a result of the detonation of a warhead outside the airplane,” and investigators found “tell-tale fragments of a Russian-made BUK missile” in the bodies of the plane’s pilots. Russia rejected the findings, responding the missile was no longer in its arsenal. (See July 17, 2014.)
20211013: Blue Origin successfully completed its second human spaceflight on board New Shepard. The 10 minute, 17 second flight included passengers Dr. Chris Boshuizen, Glen de Vries, Audrey Powers, and William Shatner. (See July 20, 2021.)