Federal Aviation Administration

About Federal Aviation Administration

The Federal Aviation Administration is a United States government agency within the Department of Transportation that regulates civil aviation in the country and in surrounding international waters. Its responsibilities include air traffic control, certification of pilots, aircraft and airports, and oversight of commercial space launches. The agency was created by the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 under the name Federal Aviation Agency and took its current name in 1967 when it joined the Department of Transportation.

Among its listed activities are issuing and enforcing safety regulations, operating airport towers and air route traffic control centers, researching and developing the National Airspace System, and running programs to control aircraft noise and other environmental effects of aviation. The agency is headed by an Administrator and organized into lines of business and regional offices. In New York State, its Eastern Region office is located at 1 Aviation Plaza in Jamaica, New York 11434, and the region's New York Area Program Integration Office and New York Airports District Office are also based at that address.

Practice areas

Areas of work that Federal Aviation Administration describes on its own website. They describe the organization as a whole, not the practice of any individual attorney listed below.

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