Airport Management - Delta State University
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Airport Management
Chapter 1
Lecture 1
The airport-airway system:
a historical perspective
December 17, 1903
Development of civil airports
Meshing of military, commercial,& private
activity
1912
20 recognized airports in the country
Private owned
The airport-airway system:
a historical perspective
Early airmail service
1st regular airmail route in US between New
York city and Washington, D.C
Joint effort between War & Post office until
PO took over exclusively
1920s
145 municipally owned airports
Nationwide airport system began to form
Domestic airmail service grew
Air Mail
1925
Airmail Act of 1925 (Kelly Act)
Airmail from government to private contractors
1926
Air Commerce Act
Sec. Of commerce duty
Encourage growth of aviation industry
Through establishment of airways & navigation aids
Aeronautics Branch/Dept. of commerce
Program to license pilots & mechanics
Airway System
1934
Bureau of Air Commerce (Department of Commerce)
Regulation of traffic along nation’s airways
Federal government responsible for licensing of
pilots
establishment of airways & nav aids
Separation & safety of aircraft on airways
Airway System
1937
Revised plan of organization of Bureau of Air
Commerce
Placed all activities of bureau under a director
Aided with an assistant director
Seven principle divisions: airway engineering, airway
operation, safety and planning, administration and
statistics, certification and inspection, and regulation.
The National Plan
1938-The Civil Aeronautics Act
Civil aeronautics authority –only
independent agency in US
Civil Aeronautics Act divided CAA functions
into 3 groups
Civil Aeronautics Act
Civil Aeronautics Authority
5 person CAA /issuing airline route certificates
& determined airline fares
3 member Air Safety board/investigate
aviation accidents safety recommendations
1 administrator for CAA
Fostering aviation, maintaining airways, controlling
air traffic
Civil Aeronautics Act
Act also provided CAA certification of air
traffic controller & tower
CAA established the Air Traffic Control
division
Air traffic control centers
Reorganization of CAA
in 1940
Under authority of Reorganization Act of 1939
Air Safety Board & 5 member authority combined to
form Civil aeronautics board (CAB)
CAB placed under Dept. of commerce
Dept. of commerce renamed Civil aeronautics
administration
CAA originally meant civil aeronautics authority
became civil aeronautics administration