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Civil aviation

The Convention on International Civil Aviation (the "Chicago Convention") was originally established in 1944; it states that signatories should collectively work to harmonize and standardize the use of airspace for safety, efficiency and regularity of air transport.


Air Transat Flight 236

Captain Robert Piché, 48, an experienced glider pilot, and First Officer Dirk de Jager, 28, flew the plane to a successful emergency landing in the Azores, saving all 306 people (293 passengers and 13 crew) on board.

ARP4754

ARP4754 was defined in the context of aircraft certification, in particular Part 25 Sections 1301 and 1309 of harmonized civil aviation regulations for transport category airplanes.

International flight

An international flight is a form of commercial flight within civil aviation where the departure and the arrival take place in different countries.

Saurabh Patel

Considered to be one of the most educated ministers serving in the cabinet, he holds the portfolios for Energy & Petrochemicals, Mines & Minerals, Cottage Industry, Salt Industry, Printing, Stationery, Planning, Tourism, Civil Aviation and Labour & Employment.


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1945 Australian National Airways Stinson crash

The Minister for Civil Aviation, Mr Arthur Drakeford, made a detailed statement to the House of Representatives that an undetected fatigue crack in a welded joint in a boom attachment fitting in the left wing caused the crash.

1946 in Ireland

6 August - On the first anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, Captain Bob Lewis, the co-pilot of the Enola Gay, the aircraft which dropped the bomb, arrives at Shannon Airport, completing his first flight as a civil aviation pilot.

Air Niugini

In March 2006, Transport and Civil Aviation Minister Don Polye announced an open air policy, which would allow other airlines to fly international routes into and from Papua New Guinea.

Allahabad Airport

Union Minister of Civil Aviation Ajit Singh has requested Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav to transfer 50 acres of identified land in Allahabad to Airports Authority of India (AAI) to develop a new Civil Enclave to handle civil airport operations in the City.

Atol

Air Travel Organisers' Licensing, a UK Civil Aviation Authority scheme to protect air travellers

Béatrice Vialle

Graduating from École nationale de l'aviation civile (The French civil aviation university; promotion "airline transport pilot student" 1981), she started her career at Air Littoral flying an Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante.

Belgian Civil Aviation Authority

The Belgian Civil Aviation Authority (also known as "Directorat-General de l'Aviation Civile" in French, or "Bestuur der Luchtvaart" in Dutch) is part of the FOD Transport en Mobiliteit (FPS Transport) in Belgium, directed until 2010 by Secretary of State Etienne Schouppe (CD&V).

Bhandara district

The most famous politician of this district is Praful Patel from Gondia (now a separate district), who was previously minister for Civil Aviation in the UPA government but now is the cabinet minister for heavy industries.

Bihta

As air traffic grows at Patna airport, also known as the Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, the Central government is considering moving the facility outside Bihar's capital city to Bihta.According to senior government officials, negotiations are underway between the ministry of civil aviation and the air force to shift the airport from Patna to Bihta, which is a defence airfield 20 km away from the existing.

Bill Luxton

Luxton's portfolios in the Falkland Islands Government included Civil Aviation, Development Corporation, Aquaculture and Rural Development.

Canton, Illinois

Lee Eyerly, (1892–1963) an American civil aviation pioneer and amusement ride manufacturer

Cessna CH-1

The company indicated that this was due to the civil aviation market not being ready for this type of aircraft, although CH-1 owner Rex Trailer claims that it was due to catastrophic transmission failures.

Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand

After the release of a damning coroner's report into Air Adventure's Piper Navajo crash near Christchurch International Airport on June 6, 2003, killing the pilot Michael Bannerman and seven Crop and Food Research staff, the Civil Aviation Authority underwent an urgent review by the office of the former Minister of Transport, Annette King, and resulted in the resignation of director John Jones.

Copa Airlines Flight 201

A special team consisting of personnel from Copa Holdings, Boeing, Pratt & Whitney and the NTSB worked together with Panamanian civil aviation authorities on the investigation, which lasted one year.

Council of Ministers of Gujarat

Saurabh Patel:Energy and Petrochemicals, Mines and Minerals, Salt industries, Printing, Planning, Tourism, Civil aviation, Labor and employment

Electronic flight bag

The system called FMD (Flight Management Desktop) permits Aero Lloyd to remove all the documentation and RTOW in paper from the cockpit with the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt (German Civil Aviation Authority) agreement.

Empire Air Mail Scheme

Conceived in 1934 by Sir Eric Geddes, chairman of Imperial Airways, EAMS sought to greatly expand British civil aviation by shifting all ‘first class’ mail within the British Empire by air.

Faizabad Airport

Union Civil aviation minister Ajit Singh is seeking permission from Uttar Pradesh government to hand over the airport to AAI so that scheduled carrier planes could be operable at Faizabad airport.

Farman F.30

Dobrolyot - at least 10 planes transferred for civil aviation purposes.

FP4

CFP4, an International Civil Aviation Organization airport code for McQuesten Airport, Yukon, Canada

George Chetwynd

From 1964, Chetwynd began to receive other public appointments, first as a member of the General Advisory Council of the Independent Television Authority and of the North-East Advisory Committee for Civil Aviation.

Gurney Airport

The airport is a single runway general aviation facility, however in December, 2008, the PNG Minister for Transport and Civil Aviation, Don Polye announced that aviation company Skyworld had been granted permission to operate direct flights from Cairns, Australia to Gurney.

Helsinki-Malmi Airport

The Winter War interrupted civil aviation at Malmi, and the Airport was taken over by the Finnish Air Force.

INAC

National Institute of Civil Aviation (Instituto Nacional de Aeronáutica Civil), the former Venezuelan civil aviation agency

Nicaraguan Civil Aeronautics Institute (Instituto Nicaragüense de Aeronáutica Civil), the Nicaraguan civil aviation agency

Jagodina Airport

With decision of the Directorate of Civil Aviation, from 8 March 2012, Jagodina was officially given sport airport, the second of its kind in the Pomoravlje District next to Paraćin-Davidovac Airport.

Joginder Nagar Valley

An FAI category two paragliding competition is organized annually by the Department of Tourism and Civil Aviation at Bir-Billing (31 km from Jogindernagar) in the month of October or November.

Maynard L. Taylor, Jr.

He was employed by the Civil Aviation Administration and the Alaska Railroad, and taught at the newly founded Anchorage Community College, the predecessor to the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Miho-Yonago Airport

It is controlled by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force and is jointly used by civil aviation, the JASDF and the Japan Coast Guard.

Mirwais Sadiq

Mirwais Sadiq (died March 21, 2004) was the Civil Aviation Minister of Afghanistan and the son of the Ismail Khan, who was then the governor of Herat Province.

National Team for Transportation Safety and Security

The National Team for Transportation Safety and Security was set up a few days after the disappearance of Adam Air Flight 574 on January 1, 2007, by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, partially as a response to the high number of recent transportational accidents in Indonesia, and also as a direct response to the loss of the aircraft, along with other civil aviation accidents within Indonesia.

Omar Zakhilwal

Zakhilwal served as the President of the Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA), a member of the Supreme Council of Da Afghanistan Bank, Acting Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, and the Chief Advisor to the Minister of Rural Development of Afghanistan.

Paddy Mendis

After retiring he went on to work as Chairman, Air Ceylon; Commissioner General, Civil Defence and Aviation; member, Reserve Affairs Council and Chairman, Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka.

PICAO

Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization, which became the International Civil Aviation Organization in 1947.

Pierre Marie Gallois

After the war, Gallois was detached to civil aviation and took part in conferences of the International Civil Aviation Organization.

Rakuita Vakalalabure

After returning to Fiji, he served as a state prosecutor for four years under the then-Director of Public Prosecutions, Nazhat Shameem and three years as Legal Officer and Board Secretary for the Civil Aviation Authority of Fiji.

REDjet

On August 5, 2011, REDjet scheduled to begin flights into St Lucia from as early as October 2011 by St. Lucian Tourism and Civil Aviation Minister Senator Allen Chastanet.

Second Karzai cabinet

Finally, the Jombesh-e Melli, of strongman Abdul Rashid Dostum has two high-ranking members on the list with the deputy head of the party, Mohammad Ismail Munshi, named as Minister of Labour and Social Affairs and Dr. Mohammadullah Batash, a former Secretary of the Jombesh General Council as Minister of Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation.

Shelmerdine

Francis Shelmerdine, British Royal Flying Corps officer and later Director-General of Civil Aviation

Tashkent Aviation Production Association

In the second place, it was founded in 1932 in the city of Khimki, Moscow region as the 84 Repairing Factory of GVF (Civil Aviation Fleet), later - the Aviation Factory named after V. P. Chkalov.

Vladimir Sharpatov

After he completed the third year of studies at KAI, he entered the Krasny Kut civil aviation flight school.

WADD

Ngurah Rai International Airport, whose International Civil Aviation Organization airport code is WADD