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All programs of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) except for research activities, are within the purview of the Subcommittee. The Aviation Subcommittee is also traditionally the lead subcommittee with jurisdiction over the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the federal agency responsible for investigating civil aviation ...
The FAA was created in August 1958 () as the Federal Aviation Agency, replacing the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA). In 1967, the FAA became part of the newly formed U.S. Department of Transportation and was renamed the Federal Aviation Administration.
Mark H. Buzby: August 8, 2017 (Confirmed August 3, 2017, voice vote) January 11, 2021 Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration; Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Howard R. Elliott [15] October 30, 2017 (Confirmed October 5, 2017, voice vote)
The House passed the measure to reauthorize Federal Aviation Administration programs by a 387-26 margin and sent it to President Joe Biden. The Senate passed the measure last week.
Michael Whitaker now must be vetted by the Senate before he can be confirmed.
On December 11, 2019, during a hearing of the House Committee on Transportation titled "The Boeing 737 MAX: Examining the Federal Aviation Administration's Oversight of the Aircraft's Certification," an internal FAA review [128] dated December 3, 2018, was released, which predicted a high MAX accident rate, if it kept flying with MCAS unchanged ...
The Airline Safety and Federal Aviation Administration Extension Act of 2010 (Public Law 111–216) required some of these regulation changes. [6] At that time of the crash, it was the deadliest aviation disaster involving the Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 until the crash of US-Bangla Airlines Flight 211 in 2018. [1]
Michael Gordon Whitaker (born June 21, 1961) [1] is an American lawyer who served as the 19th administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) from 2023 to 2025. He previously served as chief operating officer of Supernal under the Hyundai Motor Company from 2020 to 2023, as principal of the aviation consultancy Whitaker Air Space from 2016 to 2020, and as deputy administrator of FAA ...