On May 5, 2014, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that the second of the six test sites chosen for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) research has been deemed operational. The FAA granted a Certificate of Waiver or Authorization (COA) to the Univer…
Read More »On April 16, 2014, the European Parliament and Council published Regulation No. 421/2014, which clarifies the geographical scope of the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). The EU ETS, established to reduce the effects of emissions on climate change, requires that aircraft operators wit…
Read More »On April 25, 2014, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced the prohibition against certain flights in the Simferopol (UKFV) Flight Information Region (FIR) under the Special Federal Aviation Regulation (SFAR) No. 113, § 91.1607. The affected airspace includes sovereign Ukrainian a…
Read More »On April 21, 2014, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that one of the six test sites chosen for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) research has been deemed operational. The six test sites were selected on December 30, 2013 by congressional mandate. …
Read More »The Wicks Group (TWG) recently joined two organizations formed to support India’s growing aviation sector, the US-India Aviation Cooperation Program (ACP) and the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC). With these memberships, TWG is supporting continued improvements in global aviation safety and…
Read More »Under the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, the FAA required the Aviation Administration to initiate a rulemaking to require air carriers conducting domestic, flag, and supplemental operations to make available on their websites information meant to enable passengers to determine which chil…
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