Federal Aviation Administration News

The slopes of Alaska's Gastineau Channel framed the single-engine Cessna 172RG Cutlass on descent into Juneau on the clear afternoon of May 30, 1998.

John Kirrane can't vote in East Hampton Town, but he believes his quality of life and potentially the value of his Noyac home have been so damaged by the East Hampton Airport that he can no longer stay silent.

A Hilton Head Island planning committee recommended Wednesday that Town Council deny a developer's plan to rezone a failed, 8.56-acre housing development off Beach City Road near the airport runway.

Nate Bernard is heading home to Fort Myers, Florida. He says when it comes to flying, safety comes first, but he also doesn't want to be delayed.

"It's kind of a sliver of the golf course, but it's an important sliver that requires some holes to move around to accommodate it," Dakota Golf Management's Tom Jansa said.

Here is just one example: Among the many outrages that congressional Democrats have assigned to the sequester is that it could reduce the available slots in the Head Start program by as many as 70,000 children.

When Kenneth Kirchoff notices that an airline passenger has failed to power off his gadget as instructed, he'll politely point out the oversight.

Passengers are increasingly relying on their tablets and other personal electronic devices for entertainment and work on U.S. domestic flights, even though there is a ban on their use during takeoff and Passengers are increasingly relying on their tablets and other personal electronic devices for entertainment and work on U.S. domestic flights, ... (more)

State officials in Oklahoma confirmed 24 people, including nine children, lost their lives as a massive tornado ripped through Oklahoma City and its suburbs on May 20.

A powerful tornado blasted an area outside of Oklahoma City on Monday, leveling homes and killing at least 51 people.

United Airlines Chairman and CEO Jeff Smisek, Newark Mayor Cory Booker, and Port Authority Chairman David Samson and Deputy Executive Director Director Bill Baroni gathered today to celebrate the airline's 25th anniversary in Newark.

Susan French is a self-proclaimed "nervous flier" who didn't realize she had booked a ticket on one of Boeing's highly publicized 787s until just before she boarded the plane at Denver International Airport on Tuesday.

Port Authority Officer Kaneta Cooper, a Hackensack High School graduate, was one of the first responders to an emergency landing at Newark Liberty International Airport.

The streets are so much darker now, since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments.

The district dedicates entire schools to specialized instruction on specific career areas including medicine, alternative energy, foreign languages, performing arts and, most uniquely, aerospace.

"Just because it doesn't happen around here a lot, it can happen," Quincy Fire Department's Public Education team member Jerry Mast said.

An unmanned aerial vehicle is an aircraft system without an on board human pilot.

The growing use of unmanned surveillance "eyes in the sky" aircraft raises a thicket of privacy concerns, but Congress is getting mixed advice on what, if anything, to do about it.

Boeing 787 Back In The Air Boeing's 787 has returned to the sky after a four-month grounding by the FAA when an United Airlines Dreamliner took off this morning from Houston en route to Chicago's O'Hare airport.

Construction of a new taxiway at The Eastern Iowa Airport may be pushed back to the next fiscal year due to a transfer of Federal Aviation Administration funds.