The Federal Aviation Act of 1958 is when the idea of the Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA, was born. It has molded the way we work in the aviation industry into the well-oiled machine it is today. Because of its existence, we have been able to continue the evolution of flight and air travel into what it is today. We have learned how to manage, maintain and pilot our aircraft with safety, efficiency, uniformity, and ethics in order to overcome the skies and make them our oysters.
On August 23, 1958, the Federal Aviation Act was passed and signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The act's purpose was to safeguard the Federal Aviation Agency, which would later become known as the Federal Aviation Administration. The main purpose of this agency being created was to encourage safety for all in the aviation industry. This act was also built to replace, with improvements, the CAA (Civil Aeronautics Administration), which it did with flying colors.
This act was instrumental in shaping the aviation industry because it created a standard. It allowed for an agency/administration to create a uniformity for all aircraft and organizations with aircraft to follow a specific set of rules and regulations to ensure safety in all areas of the aviation industry. Without the FAA we would have people maintaining and operating their aircraft with now set standard, making it impossible to provide a safe flying environment not only for each individual company, but for each individual person as well. Without these safety and operating standards, we would not know who to trust, and even those companies following all safety measures would not be safe in the sky knowing there are other aircraft operating under a completely different set of rules.
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Milestones in International Civil Aviation (n.d.). ICAO: Uniting Aviation. Retrieved
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John W. Gelder S.Ed., Air Law - The Federal Aviation Act of 1958, 57 MICH. L. REV. 1214 (1959).
Retrieved on February 15, 2022 from https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol57/iss8/5
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