Aviation regulatory agencies are charged with oversight of the aviation industry. Such agencies are primarily governmental or international organizations. The issue of safety is central to any such agency: Not only must the aviation industry be...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is an agency of the United States Department of Transportation with authority to regulate and oversee all aspects of civil aviation in the U.S. The Federal Aviation Act of 1958 created the group under the name...

The Federal Aviation Administration is conducting a more detailed review of Mirant Corp.'s plan to raise the height of the five stacks at its troubled Alexandria power plant, a plan the FAA initially rejected as potentially hazardous to air navigation. Mirant requested the...

Critics believe that air traffic control should be handed over to government-owned corporations rather than to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The FAA suffers from severe budget constraints and red tape and uses outdated equipment to regulate air traffic. There's a growing consensus...

A small plane crashed into a house as it was apparently trying to land at a nearby airport on Saturday, killing the male pilot and a woman on the ground, authorities said.Faulkner County Coroner Patrick Moore said at a news conference the woman killed was...

Two small planes collided above a bay near Tacoma on Tuesday, with one landing safely at a nearby airstrip and the other touching down softly in the water, authorities said.There were two people aboard one of the planes and one aboard the other. None was...