Bill Shea, an aerospace lecturer and former FAA Associate\nAdministrator for Airports in l981-85, told the State Aviation Journal that the\nU.S. needs a new National Aviation Commission (NAC). The FAA would report to\nthe NAC, with the NAC reporting directly to the president due to the importance\nof U.S. aviation nationally and globally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shea went on to say that the FAA should be moved out from under\nthe USDOT (too busy with surface modes) and report to a new stand-alone NAC. The\nNAC would be responsible for strategic national and global aviation planning,\npolicy and would promote U.S aviation around the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe U.S. aviation system has always been the best in the\nworld,\u201d noted Shea, \u201cBut today, we see some decline. We must maintain a strong\naviation program. The growth and demand\nahead for global air travel will be extraordinary and the U.S. must be\nprepared.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shea said the U.S. needs at least three new international\nairports and noted that there are some abandoned and low-use military sites and\na few large regional GA airports as well a few ocean\/lake sites that could be\ncandidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The U.S. also needs a new airliner manufacturer. \u201cRecall\nwhen Lockheed, Douglas, and Convair built some of the world’s great airliners. There\u2019s\nonly Boeing left! Foreign interests continue to evaluate U.S. airline service. New\naviation planning methodologies are needed now,\u201d concluded Shea. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bill Shea, an aerospace lecturer and former FAA Associate Administrator for Airports in l981-85, told the State Aviation Journal that the U.S. needs a new National Aviation Commission (NAC). The FAA would report to the NAC, with the NAC reporting directly to the president due to the importance of U.S. aviation nationally and globally. Shea […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25777,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25776\/revisions\/25777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}