A San Jose company is launching its first flight school, laying the groundwork for eventual air taxi operations. The aircraft ...

Each year 1,500 new students go through 16 weeks of training at the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City. The washout rate is high at 30%. Those who make it through go on to years of specialized ...

On Tuesday evening, the FAA said in a statement that the directive was “an unauthorized communication sent by an employee. FAA employees will continue to attend meetings and engage with ...

“So they jump to the industry side.” In Kansas City, FAA academy graduates start at a yearly salary of just over $55k. Controllers receive increases as they progress through the process of ...

But there is a constant challenge to keep up with natural attrition, as ATC trainees spend up to six months at the FAA Academy followed by up to four years at an airport facility before becoming ...

A critical aviation warning system that went down Saturday has been restored to working order, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Sunday. “It went down last night. A backup system was ...

Duffy noted that the FAA's training academy was bottlenecked during COVID-19, causing small class sizes and delaying the process as trainees could not get in-person experience at control towers.

Consideration for people with disabilities is a long-standing, government-wide policy that does not apply to hiring air traffic controllers, according to a former FAA official who spoke on the ...

Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., told "Fox News Live" Saturday that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Academy in Oklahoma has struggled to fill classrooms due to DEI quotas. "Where the FAA ...

So far, the FAA hasn't budged on its requirement for an investigation, an agency spokesperson told Ars on Friday. After a preliminary assessment of flight data, SpaceX officials said a fire ...