Federal Aviation Administration
U.S. government agency regulating civil aviation
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| June 3 2024 | Vince Fong joins the 118th Congress House Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation as a member, representing California. |
| April 24 2024 | Donald Payne Jr. concludes his membership in the 118th Congress House Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation. |
| October 27 2023 | Michael Whitaker becomes the 19th FAA Administrator. |
| September 2023 | President Joe Biden announces nomination of Mike Whitaker to lead the FAA, who previously served as deputy administrator under President Barack Obama. |
| August 2023 | The New York Times published an investigative report revealing significant safety concerns within the FAA, documenting 46 near-collision incidents in July due to overworked and understaffed air traffic control facilities. |
| March 18 2022 | Don Young of Alaska, a Minority member of the House Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation, passed away or left the committee as of this date. |
| February 16 2022 | Stephen Dickson announces his resignation as FAA Administrator, effective March 31, 2022. |
| November 15 2020 | First FAA-licensed orbital human space flight conducted by SpaceX on behalf of NASA. |
| August 12 2019 | Stephen Dickson is sworn in as FAA Administrator by Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. |
| July 24 2019 | Senate confirms Stephen Dickson as FAA Administrator with a 52-40 vote. |
| March 19 2019 | President Donald Trump announces nomination of Stephen Dickson as FAA Administrator. |
| March 18 2019 | All 387 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in service were grounded, affecting major U.S. airlines including Southwest, United, and American Airlines. |
| March 13 2019 | FAA finally decided to ground Boeing 737 MAX aircraft after receiving evidence of similarities between two fatal crashes. |
| March 12 2019 | FAA stated there were 'no systemic performance issues' and initially refused to ground Boeing 737 MAX aircraft operating in the United States. |
| March 10 2019 | Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash occurred, which raised significant safety concerns about the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. |
| 2018 | FAA Reauthorization Act mandated establishing minimum seat dimensions for passenger safety and planned to replace the FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure program with FAA Enterprise Network Services. |
| 2018 | End of FAA's strategic performance measurement period, with the goal of reducing commercial air carrier fatalities to no more than 6.2 per 100 million persons on board. |
| 2017 | ASKME Segment 2 concludes, completing the full implementation of the 18 separate projects for the FAA Aircraft Certification Service. |
| July 2014 | FAA suspended U.S. airline flights to Ben Gurion Airport during the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict, initially for 24 hours and then briefly extended. |
| 2013 | ASKME Segment 2 begins, continuing the development of the comprehensive automation environment for aviation safety processes. |
| October 31 2013 | FAA announced expanded use of portable electronic devices during all flight phases, while maintaining prohibitions on mobile phone calls and cellular network use. |
| 2012 | ASKME Segment 1 concludes, completing the first phase of the software development project. |
| 2010 | Beginning of FAA's 9-year strategic safety performance measurement period, targeting reduction of commercial air carrier fatalities. |
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