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Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center. Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center (ZAU) (radio communications: " Chicago Center ") is one of 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCCs) operated by the United States Federal Aviation Administration. [1] It is located at 619 W. New Indian Trail Rd., Aurora, Illinois.
Coordinates: 41°46′58″N 88°19′52″W. The 2014 Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center fire was an incident in the United States involving arson [1] at an air traffic control facility in Aurora, Illinois [2] (also known as "Chicago Center"); [3] the incident caused close to 2,000 airline flights to be grounded. [4]
The United States has 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCC). [1] They are operated by and are part of the Federal Aviation Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation . An ARTCC controls aircraft flying in a specified region of airspace, known as a flight information region (FIR), typically during the en route portion of flight.
List of area control centers. Area control centers (ACCs) control IFR air traffic in their flight information region (FIR). The current list of FIRs and ACCs is maintained by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). [1] Note that the cited ICAO source gives the shapefile coordinates for each FIR, and also its page source gives a ...
June 26, 2023 at 11:34 AM. Key U.S. air traffic control centers are facing staffing shortages that threaten the continuity of the country’s airspace system, a new federal government audit found ...
Area control center. In air traffic control, an area control center (ACC), also known as a center or en-route center, is a facility responsible for controlling aircraft flying in the airspace of a given flight information region (FIR) at high altitudes between airport approaches and departures. In the US, such a center is referred to as an air ...
The plan called for more advanced systems for Air Traffic Control, and improvements in ground-to-air surveillance and communication with new Doppler Radars and better transponders. Better computers and software were developed, air route traffic control centers were consolidated, and the number of flight service stations reduced.
The first air route traffic control center (ARTCC), which directs the movement of aircraft between departure and destination, was opened in Newark in 1935, followed in 1936 by Chicago and Cleveland. [8] Currently in the US, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) operates 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers.