The ICAO should not be confused with the International Air Transport Association ( IATA ), a trade organization for airlines also headquartered in Montreal, or with the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation ( CANSO ), an organization for Air Navigation Service Providers ( ANSPs ) with its headquarters at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in the Netherlands.

The forerunner to the ICAO was the International Commission for Air Navigation ( ICAN ).

Another area in which the ICAO is active is infrastructure management, including Communication, Navigation, Surveillance / Air Traffic Management ( CNS / ATM ) systems, which employ digital technologies ( e. g., satellite systems with various levels of automation ) in order to maintain a seamless global air traffic management system.

There were approximately 30 international conventions which the Court had similar jurisdiction under, including the Treaty of Versailles, the Air Navigation Convention, the Treaty of St. Germain and all mandates signed by the League of Nations.

With the unprecedented implementation of Security Control of Air Traffic and Air Navigation Aids ( SCATANA ) plan, all civilian airplane traffic in the United States and Canada was grounded until September 13, 2001.

: The European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation ( EUROCONTROL ) provides an Aeronautical Information Publication ( AIP ), aeronautical charts and NOTAM services for multiple European countries.

National Air Traffic Services, the UK's Air Navigation Service Provider, a public – private partnership also publishes an online AIP for the UK.

In July 2011 The Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) issued a ruling that approves the use of Iridium for Future Air Navigation System ( FANS ) data links, enabling satellite data links with air traffic control ( ATC ) for aircraft flying in the FANS environment including areas not served by Inmarsat ( above or below 70 Degrees Latitude ) which includes Polar routes.

The first recorded use of the term aviator ( aviateur in French ) was in 1887, as a variation of ' aviation ', from the Latin avis ( meaning bird ), coined in 1863 by G. de la Landelle in Aviation Ou Navigation Aérienne ( Aviation or Air Navigation ).

There is no airport on Sark, and flight over Sark below 2400 ft is prohibited by the Air Navigation ( Restriction of Flying ) ( Guernsey ) Regulations 1985 ( Guernsey 1985 / 21 ).

The Link Celestial Navigation Trainer was developed in response to a request made by the British Royal Air Force ( RAF ) in 1939.

During 1940, Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ) schools were established across Australia to support EATS in Initial Training, Elementary Flying Training, Service Flying Training, Air Navigation, Air Observer, Bombing and Gunnery and Wireless Air Gunnery.

Initially named Blériot and SPAD Ltd and based in Addlestone, it became the Air Navigation and Engineering Company ( ANEC ) in May 1918.

The decisions of the Supreme Court in cases such as Calvert Cliffs Coordinating Committee v. U. S. Atomic Energy Commission ( broadly reading the procedural requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act ), Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill ( broadly reading the Endangered Species Act ), and, much more recently, Massachusetts v. EPA ( requiring EPA to reconsider regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act ) have had policy impacts far beyond the facts of the particular case.

Homer achieved the rank of captain before his honorable discharge from active duty in 1995 and his acceptance of a Reserve Commission in order to continue his career as an Air Force officer.

The 9 / 11 Commission Report stated that NEADS fighters pursued Delta Air Lines Flight 1989, a flight thought to be hijacked.

* January 24 – Air India Flight 101 crashes into Mont Blanc, killing all 117 persons on board, including Dr. Homi J. Bhabha, chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission.

In 1990, amendments to the Clean Air Act established the Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission ( GCVTC ) to advise the US EPA on strategies for protecting visual air quality on the Colorado Plateau.

The GCVTC released its final report in 1996 and initiated the Western Regional Air Partnership ( WRAP ), a partnership of state, tribal and federal agencies to help coordinate implementation of the Commission ’ s recommendations.

Many of SOM's post-war designs have become icons of American modern architecture, including the Manhattan House ( 1950 ), designated as a New York City landmark in 2007 by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission ; and the Lever House ( 1952 ), also in New York City ; as well as the Air Force Academy Chapel ( 1958 ) in Colorado Springs, Colorado ; and the John Hancock Center ( 1969 ) and Sears Tower ( 1973 ), both in Chicago.

On January 1, 1957, the U. S. Air Force and the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission selected the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's ( LLNL ) predecessor, the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, to study the feasibility of applying heat from nuclear reactors to ramjet engines.

Born was deposed on 9 December 2011, as a respondent in an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission case of alleged disability discrimination filed by former United States Air Force Academy economics professor David Mullin, who was also a client of the U. S. Civil Rights organization, Military Religious Freedom Foundation ( MRFF ).

On 13 May 2005, the Base Realignment and Closure ( BRAC ) Commission recommended that Cannon Air Force Base be closed.

The facility is an amalgamation of the United States Army Fort Lewis and the United States Air Force McChord Air Force Base which merged on 1 February 2010 into a Joint Base as a result of Base Realignment and Closure Commission recommendations of 2005.

On 6 March 2007, the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, removed DAS Air Cargo from its list of banned aircraft after they made safety improvements.

The museum was originally called the National Air Museum when formed on August 12, 1946 by an act of Congress and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman, some pieces in the National Air and Space Museum collection date back to the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia after which the Chinese Imperial Commission donated a group of kites to the Smithsonian after Smithsonian Secretary Spencer Fullerton Baird convinced exhibiters that shipping them home would be too costly.

* Broadcasting Commission ( New Zealand on Air ) ( Irirangi Te Motu )

In 1993, MCAS El Toro was designated for closing by the Base Realignment and Closure Commission and all of its activities were to be transferred to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar.

In 1947, the USAAF turned over the airfield to the United States Navy, which consolidated its facilities with those at the closing Harmon Air Force Base in 1949, and operated Naval Air Station, Agana until it was closed by the 1993 Base Realignment and Closure ( BRAC ) Commission.

The Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India

This request was made by the British Air Commission in Washington, D. C., with a proposal calling for a tank of between and to be developed, this being the maximum weight the War Office had decided could be carried by current glider technology.

*" The Major Trophy Races of the Golden Age of Air Racing " by David H. Onkst, US Centennial of Flight Commission, retrieved January 6, 2006

* Brazilian Aeronautical Commission, aircraft purchaser for the Brazilian Air Force headquartered in Washington D. C., United States

The ADFC is composed of the Australian Army Cadets ( AAC ), Australian Navy Cadets ( ANC ), Australian Air Force Cadets ( AAFC ), which are funded by the Australian Government via the Department of Defence.

He was, and is, with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit pool of thinkers financed by the U.S. Air Force.

BMEWS intelligence is simultaneously flashed to NORAD ( North American Air Defense Command ) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, for interpretation ; ;

the Army, Navy and Air Force, among others, may question Secretary Freeman's claim that the high estate of United States agriculture is the `` strongest deterrent '' to the spread of communism.

Air Force life is great, the cadet wrote, `` though the fourth-class system is no fun ''.

The Strategic Air Command is the principal element of our long-range nuclear capability.

* 1918 – The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.

* 1924 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.

Atma ( Soul ) merges into " Parmatma " or the greatest soul. According to Bhagwadgita an " Atma " or soul never dies, what dies is the body only made of five elements-Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Sky.

* 1972 – In an unsuccessful coup d ' état attempt, the Royal Moroccan Air Force fires upon Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.

* 1994 – Eugene Bullard, the only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.

The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.

The film Con Air, starring Nicolas Cage and John Malkovich, features scenes in which an aircraft is hijacked by the maximum-security prisoners on board.

Area 51 is a military base, and a remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base.

Although the facilities at the range are managed by the 99th Air Base Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, the Groom facility appears to be run as an adjunct of the Air Materiel Command Air Force Flight Test Center ( AFFTC ) at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, around southwest of Groom, and as such the base is known as Air Force Flight Test Center ( Detachment 3 ).

* 1955 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.

An air show, also " airshow ", Air Fair, or Air Tatoo is an event at which aviators display their flying skills and the capabilities of their aircraft to spectators in aerobatics.

A replica of the Wright Brothers ' wind tunnel is on display at the Virginia Air and Space Center.