Tag: FAA

June 9, 2023

President Joe Biden has picked a longtime government official and current top aide in the Transportation Department to serve as acting administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. The White House said June 8 that Polly Trottenberg replaced Billy Nolen, who […]

March 1, 2023

On Monday, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced it would be awarding nearly $1 billion to airports across the country to keep up with air travel demand. The funding, part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, would go to 99 airports […]

August 31, 2022

Drones could soon be coming to your fleet. Drone systems operator American Robotics, a subsidiary of Ondas Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ONDS), on Wednesday announced that it received a new exemption from the Federal Aviation Administration that will allow it to […]

June 17, 2022

Several bills advanced by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure this week included major attempts to revamp aircraft maintenance and the aerospace supply chain, among other measures. Passing the scrutiny of committee markup were the Safe Aircraft Maintenance Standards […]

April 7, 2022

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) dedicated a new air traffic control tower at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, N.C. Construction on the tower started in 2016. The new tower is not only environmentally sustainable but, […]

November 16, 2021

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently invited the public to comment on a Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for Huntsville International Airport in Huntsville, Ala., to serve as a reentry site for horizontally landed commercial reentry vehicles. The draft includes a […]

October 8, 2021

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently awarded Ontario International Airport (ONT) an $11.4 million grant for the rehabilitation of its existing taxiways through the American Rescue Plan Act. The airport, located approximately 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles in […]

September 15, 2021

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently awarded six private companies more than $100 million through the Continuous Lower Energy, Emissions and Noise (CLEEN) Program to develop technologies that reduce fuel use, emissions and noise. CLEEN is a public-private partnership that […]

June 24, 2021

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently awarded hundreds of airports $8 billion in grants through the Airport Rescue Grants program created in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Funding will be used to help U.S. airports recover from the […]

March 5, 2021

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently chose five airports to evaluate technologies and systems aimed at detecting and mitigating potential safety risks posed by unmanned aircraft. At least 10 technologies or systems will be tested at the airports starting later […]

February 23, 2021

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) FY2021 Airport Improvement Program grants would provide $76 million for improvements to three international airports. The first installment of the approximately $3.2 billion in funding will go to […]

February 17, 2021

The U.S. Department of Transportation announced Friday that it would be making nearly $2 billion in federal grants available for airports affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The grants are part of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Airport Coronavirus Response Grant […]

January 5, 2021

As part of the second Coronavirus relief act, more than $2 billion in funds will be awarded to U.S. airports and concessions, the Federal Aviation Administration said on Dec. 31. The grant program, part of the Coronavirus Response and Relief […]

December 30, 2020

Long-awaited regulations released Monday by the Federal Aviation Administration represent a big step toward wide-scale commercial use of drones in the U.S., including for package and cargo delivery, and full integration into the national airspace. The rules require unmanned aircraft […]

November 9, 2020

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is encouraging airport sponsors to submit funding applications through the Military Airport Program (MAP) to increase civilian aviation capacity by financing a myriad of projects. The FAA said Fiscal Year 2021 applications would be accepted […]

September 14, 2020

When it comes to the grounded Boeing 737 MAX, two things are happening simultaneously in the next few weeks: Regulators around the world are nearing the end of their processes to approve the plane to fly again. And lawmakers in […]

August 31, 2020

Retail behemoth Amazon.com Inc. took a big leap toward delivering goods from the sky by becoming one of only a handful of companies certified by the U.S. government to operate as a drone airline. The Federal Aviation Administration designated Amazon […]

June 17, 2020

A Senate committee chairman sharply criticized the Federal Aviation Administration on June 17 for what he alleged were repeated failures to respond to a committee’s investigation into two crashes of Boeing Co.’s 737 Max. Sen. Roger Wicker, the Republican head […]

June 15, 2020

Less than two weeks after Senate Commerce Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) floated legislation on the Boeing 737 MAX that was then slammed by safety advocates and family members of the victims of last year’s MAX crash, a new (and newly […]

April 27, 2020

After local news reports started coming in around the country about smaller airports being shocked by the sizes of grants they got from the CARES Act, your MT host began digging. Here’s what we found: Part of the reason is […]