All posts tagged "FAA"

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  Puerto Rico Airports to Receive $42.9 Million from Cares Act

  As Part of Combined $10 Billion in Relief Amid Pandemic

  • Posted April 15, 2020
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  Court: FAA must reconsider regulating airline seat size

  Judges called it "the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat"

  • Posted July 31, 2017
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  FAA Contemplating Whether Millions of Drones Will Fill Skies

  WASHINGTON – So many people are registering drones and applying for drone pilot licenses that federal aviation officials said Friday they wonder if there will eventually be millions of unmanned aircraft crowding the nation’s skies. In the...

  • Posted September 16, 2016
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  FAA Warns Airline Passengers not to Use Samsung Smartphone

  WASHINGTON – U.S. aviation safety officials took the extraordinary step late Thursday of warning airline passengers not to turn on or charge a new-model Samsung smartphone during flights following numerous reports of the devices catching fire. The...

  • Posted September 9, 2016
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  Pierluisi Announces Federal Funds for 3 Airports

  SAN JUAN – The U.S. Transportation Department has granted funds through the Federal Aviation Administration to the Puerto Rico Ports Authority for three regional airports, Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi announced Monday. “These funds are important because they...

  • Posted July 25, 2016
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  White House Clears Small, Commercial Drones for Takeoff

  After tears of struggling to write regulations and unleash economic potential of the new technology

  • Posted June 21, 2016
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  US Government-Sponsored Committee Recommends Commercial Drone Flight Standards

  FAA currently prohibits most commercial drone flights over populated areas

  • Posted April 3, 2016
• House Committee Passes Bill to Privatize Air Traffic Control

  WASHINGTON – A Republican-controlled House committee on Thursday endorsed a bill that would wrest responsibility for running the nation’s air traffic control system from the government and turn it over to a private, nonprofit corporation run by...

  • Posted February 11, 2016
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• Lawmakers Propose Bill to Privatize Air Traffic Control

  WASHINGTON – Responsibility for the nation’s air traffic control operations would shift from the government to a private, nonprofit corporation under legislation introduced Wednesday as part of an overhaul of how Washington oversees the aviation system. The...

  • Posted February 3, 2016
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• AP Sources: Panel Proposes Ban on Air Shipments of Batteries

  WASHINGTON – A U.N. panel recommended that cargo shipments of rechargeable lithium batteries be banned from passenger airliners because the batteries can create fires capable of destroying planes, said aviation officials familiar with the decision. The International...

  • Posted January 28, 2016
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