This Day in FAA History: October 25th

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 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. To the original 14 CTI institutions, FAA added nine schools: Arizona State University; Community College of Baltimore County (Maryland); Florida Community College-Jacksonville; Green River Community College (Washington); Lewis University (Illinois); Kent State University (Ohio); the Metropolitan State College of Denver (Colorado); Middle Georgia College, and the University of Oklahoma. These nine schools joined fourteen others that renewed their commitment to the program, which was first established in 1990 at Minneapolis Community and Technical College.
20101025: ITT Corporation announced it had received clearance from FAA for nationwide deployment of the ADS-B. Achievement of this In Service Decision milestone followed successful tests at four key sites in Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico, Louisville, and Philadelphia. (See June 24, 2010.)
20121025: FAA announced it had begun deploying a new web application that made the process of submitting, reviewing, and issuing notices to airmen (NOTAMS) more efficient and accurate. The e-NOTAM II or ENII tool expedited the time it took to publish a NOTAM. With the new system, it took less than three seconds for a NOTAM to be published once a flight service specialist had reviewed and approved it. Previously, specialists had to copy and paste information from a system that handled requested NOTAMs into a system that issued the NOTAMs. They would then submit the NOTAM to a centralized office for approval and publication. (See May 2010.)
20131025: DOT fined United Airlines $1.1 million for13 weather-related lengthy tarmac delays that took place at Chicago-O’Hare International Airport on July 13, 2012. DOT ordered the airline to cease and desist from future violations of the tarmac-delay rule. This was the largest fine assessed for a tarmac-delay violation since the rule limiting long tarmac delays first took effect in April 2010. Of the $1.1 million, United would pay the United States $475,000; the remainder covered mitigation measures for affected passengers and significant corrective actions by United to enhance future compliance with tarmac delay requirements.
20171025: President Donald Trump directed Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao to launch an initiative that would safely test and validate advanced drone operations in partnership with state and local governments in select jurisdictions. The initiative – the unmanned aircraft systems integration pilot program – would
* Give state, local and tribal governments a voice and a stake in the development of a federal regulatory framework for aviation;
* Allow companies and governments to operate drones in ways currently restricted by FAA regulations – including beyond-visual-line-of-sight flights, nighttime operations and flights over people; and
* Collect essential operational data on expanded UAS operations and community participation. (See October 18, 2017; November 8, 2017; October 30, 2020.)
20191025: The Department of Transportation announced that as of December 10, 2019, it would ban all flights by U.S. airlines between the U.S. and Cuba with the exception of flights in and out of Havana. The Department took action at the request of the State Department as a means of protesting Cuba’s support of the Venezuelan regime and because of Cuba’s repression of its own people. (See August 31, 2016; August 13, 2020.)
20191025: Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee released its report on the Lion Air Boeing 737 Max jet accident. The committee reported a combination of design flaws by Boeing and inadequate pilot training and maintenance lapses by Lion Air that led to the crash. Investigators listed nine contributing factors including an automated system’s reliance on a single sensor; the miscalibration of that sensor during repairs; a lack of flight and maintenance documentation; and a failure by the flight crew to manage the chaos in the cockpit as emergency warnings sounded. (See October 23, 2019; November 22, 2019.)
20231025: FAA signed a memorandum of agreement with the Air Force Research Laboratory to exchange data and share capabilities and expertise to integrate safely Advanced Air Mobility aircraft into the national airspace system. (See July 18, 2023.)