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Pages in category "Administrators of the Federal Aviation Administration" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In March 2019, President Donald Trump nominated Dickson to be Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration and the Chairman of the Air Traffic Services Committee. [1] On July 27, the United States Senate confirmed Dickson in a 52–40 vote. [2] He was sworn in as Administrator by Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao on August 12, 2019. [3]
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 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he had appointed a former senior aviation official as the acting head of the Federal Aviation Administration, a day after the ...
Michael Peter Huerta (born November 18, 1956) is an American government official who served as the 17th Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration from 2013 to 2018. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was also acting U.S. secretary of transportation under President Donald Trump for 11 days in 2017 until the Senate confirmed the appointment of Elaine Chao ...
The FAA's first administrator, Elwood R. Quesada, was a former Air Force general and adviser to President Eisenhower. The same year witnessed the birth of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which was created in response to the Soviet Union (USSR) launch of the first manmade satellite.
An FAA report from 2023 notes the 2019 government shutdown "resulted in large hiring and training delays" and says on-the-job training was "significantly reduced" because of the pandemic. A ...
Billy Nolen is an American government official who served as acting administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) from April 1, 2022 to June 2023. Prior to Nolen's appointment as acting administrator, he worked with American Airlines, Airlines for America, Qantas and WestJet in safety positions. He left WestJet in January 2022 to ...