Federal Aviation Administration News

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.

The control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport as seen from a Metro train stop March 24, 2011 in Washington, DC.

The FAA approved Boeing's plan to fix the 787 Dreamliner's batteries on March 12 with more testing required.

One reader asks if it's possible for an onboard computer to be hacked by a phone.

"An aircraft's first flight is an important and emotional milestone," said Honda Aircraft Company President and CEO Michimasa Fujino.

No longer grounded for safety concerns, Boeing's embattled 787 Dreamliner now has a few things to prove.

The Cessna 170 crashed in a heavily wooded area about one mile south of the airport around 9:10 p.m. Saturday, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer.

DART Aerospace announces that the Rear Locker Extendera that increases the baggage compartment capacity by 21" is now FAA and TCCA approved for Bell 206A/B/L/L1/L3/L4 and 407 aircraft.

A seaplane flies over downtown Beacon Falls during the Naugatuck River Festival May 4. The town is exploring the idea of establishing a seaplane base at Toby's Pond.

Largely paid for with federal funds, an engineering study will help officials determine whether the markings at the ends of the two runways need to be moved for safety reasons.

The Shadow, an unmanned aerial vehicle commonly known as a drone, roars to life on the video screen like a powerful snowmobile before it's launched into the skies on a catapult.