Editing Federal Aviation Administration (section)

{{Short description|U.S. government agency regulating civil aviation}}
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{{Use American English|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox government agency
| agency_         = Federal Aviation Administration
| logo            = Flag of the United States Federal Aviation Administration.svg{{!}}border
| logo_width      = 250
| logo_caption    = Flag of the Federal Aviation Administration
| seal            = [[File:US-FederalAviationAdmin-Seal.svg|200px]]
| seal_width      = 
| seal_caption    = Seal of the Federal Aviation Administration
| image           = DOT-FAA Headquarters by Matthew Bisanz.JPG
| image_caption   = FAA headquarters in [[Washington, D.C.]]
| formed          = {{Start date and age|1958|8|23}}
| preceding1      = [[Civil Aeronautics Administration (United States)|Civil Aeronautics Administration]]
| jurisdiction    = [[Federal government of the United States|U.S. federal government]]
| headquarters    = Orville Wright Federal Building<br/>800 Independence Avenue SW<br />[[Washington, D.C.]], U.S. 20591
| coordinates     = {{coord|38|53|13|N|77|1|22|W|region:US-DC_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}
| employees       = 
| budget          = [[United States dollar|US$]]19.807 billion ([[Fiscal year|FY]]2024)
| chief1_name     = [[Christopher Rocheleau]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kates |first1=Graham |title=Trump appoints new FAA administrator after vacancy during deadly plane crash |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/plane-crash-dc-faa-administrator-trump-appointment/ |website=CBS News |access-date=30 January 2025}}</ref>
| chief1_position = Acting Administrator
| chief2_name     = Liam McKenna
| chief2_position = Acting Deputy Administrator 
| parent_agency   = [[United States Department of Transportation|U.S. Department of Transportation]]
| website         = {{URL|https://www.faa.gov/|faa.gov}}
| footnotes       = <ref>{{cite news | last1 = Wald | first1 = Matthew L. | title = F.A.A. Chief to Lead Industry Group | work = [[The New York Times]] |date = 2007-08-22  |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/washington/22brfs-FAACHIEFTOLE_BRF.html | access-date = 2023-12-18 |archive-date = July 28, 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190728044053/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/washington/22brfs-FAACHIEFTOLE_BRF.html | url-status = live | issn = 0362-4331 | eissn = 1553-8095 | oclc = 1645522 | df = dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Birnbaum |first=Jeffrey H. |title=FAA Chief To Become Aerospace Lobbyist |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=August 22, 2007 |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/21/AR2007082101889.html |access-date=July 28, 2019 |archive-date=July 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727025603/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/21/AR2007082101889.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
}}
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The '''Federal Aviation Administration''' ('''FAA''') is a [[Federal government of the United States|U.S. federal government]] agency within the [[United States Department of Transportation|U.S. Department of Transportation]] that regulates [[civil aviation]] in the United States and surrounding [[international waters]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Van Loo |first=Rory |date=August 1, 2018 |title=Regulatory Monitors: Policing Firms in the Compliance Era |url=https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/265 |journal=Faculty Scholarship |volume=119 |issue=2 |page=369 |access-date=October 10, 2020 |archive-date=June 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604022358/https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/265/ |url-status=live}}</ref>'''{{rp|12,16}}''' Its powers include [[air traffic control]], certification of personnel and [[aircraft]], setting standards for airports, and protection of U.S. assets during the launch or [[re-entry]] of commercial space vehicles. Powers over neighboring [[international waters]] were delegated to the FAA by authority of the [[International Civil Aviation Organization]].

The FAA was created in {{Start date|1958|08}} as the Federal Aviation Agency, replacing the [[Civil Aeronautics Administration (United States)|Civil Aeronautics Administration]] (CAA). In 1967, the FAA became part of the newly formed U.S. Department of Transportation and was renamed the Federal Aviation Administration.