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Provided $14.5 million grant to City of Fresno for airport runway work
The Federal Aviation Administration has obligated $14.5 million to the City of Fresno for reconstruction of Runway 11L/29R at Fresno Yosemite International Airport. The award funds Phase 2 of a project to rebuild 9,539 feet of pavement that has reached the end of its useful life—1,521 feet of construction in this round.
Updated 1 hour ago
Funding source
The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded the Wayne County Airport Authority $9.8 million to rebuild and extend the terminal access road at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. The grant covers Phase 2, which adds a new off-ramp and connector road to a different terminal and rehabilitates 4,050 feet of existing pavement.
Proposing the medical certification rule change
The Federal Aviation Administration proposed a rule on September 4 that would let pilots with non-insulin dependent diabetes get medical certificates from examiners at the time of their exam, instead of waiting months for FAA headquarters review. The regulatory language requiring that review dates to 1959.
Updated 6 days ago
Grantor of Airport Improvement Program funds
Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport (SDF) is getting $9.1 million in federal money to rebuild a taxiway that has reached the end of its useful life. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) obligated the funds on August 19, 2026, for phase 3 of the Taxiway Bravo reconstruction. The phase covers 1,640 feet of the 7,275-foot taxiway.
Updated Sep 1
Grantor
Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas is getting $21.6 million in federal money to tear down and rebuild its aircraft rescue and firefighting building. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) obligated the grant on Aug. 19, 2026, through its Airport Improvement Program.
Administrator of Airport Improvement Program
DFW Airport won an $8 million federal grant to rebuild two restrooms in Terminal E. It's a small piece of a $2.7 billion modernization effort that has been reshaping the airport since 2017.
Updated Aug 31
Funder of the grant through the Airport Improvement Program
The federal government has committed $15.8 million to rebuild 20 passenger boarding bridges at Dallas Love Field. The equipment has reached the end of its useful life, the grant record says.
Awarding agency for the grant
The federal government has committed $80.5 million to build a 122,200-square-yard aircraft parking apron on the west side of Denver International Airport. Denver will bill the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for eligible costs as construction proceeds; the award is an obligation, not cash in hand.
Updated Aug 29
Regulator approving drone flight rules
Order a bottle of vitamins or a phone charger in one of a few US towns, and a drone drops it in your yard within 30 minutes. Amazon now wants that in nearly 500 cities and towns by the end of 2026, up from 11 metro areas today.
Updated Aug 19
Regulator issuing drone air-carrier licenses
DoorDash spent years handing your burrito to a driver. Now it wants to hand it to a drone it built itself. On July 31, 2026, the company said it won an FAA air-carrier license and will begin flying its own delivery drones this fall.
Updated Aug 5
Closed Flight 12 mishap investigation; cleared Starship for Flight 13 in July 2026
Starship completed its 13th test flight on July 24, 2026, deploying 20 Starlink V3 satellites and achieving the vehicle's first fully intact Ship splashdown in the Indian Ocean. The Super Heavy booster had a harder-than-planned water landing: only 5 of its 13 engines were firing at impact. SpaceX called the overall mission a success.
Updated Jul 26
Cleared BOHR under the U.S. nuclear space launch approval process
For decades, only governments could fly nuclear power in space. BOHR, a cubesat built by Florida company City Labs, launched July 7 on SpaceX's Transporter-17 and is now in orbit, entering commissioning.
Updated Jul 8
Licensing authority for the launches
SpaceX launched its first Starfall capsule from Cape Canaveral on June 23, 2026. The disk-shaped vehicle is built to bring up to 1,000 kilograms of cargo back from orbit and splash down in the Pacific. Until now, returning material from space meant small capsules carrying dozens of kilograms.
Updated Jun 23
Key bottleneck in onshore wind permitting
For nearly a decade, wind and solar power kept getting cheaper. That streak has broken. As of the first quarter of 2026, the average US solar power purchase agreement costs $64.49 per megawatt-hour and the average wind contract costs $79.40 per megawatt-hour. Both are the highest figures LevelTen Energy has recorded since it began indexing the market in 2018, with wind prices up roughly 24 percent and solar up more than 13 percent year over year.
Updated May 31
Shifted from hard production cap to performance-based oversight of Boeing
Boeing has burned cash every year since 2018. On Wednesday it reported a first-quarter adjusted loss of 20 cents per share — four times smaller than Wall Street's expected 83-cent loss — with $22.22 billion in revenue. CEO Kelly Ortberg told investors the company sees a path to roughly $3 billion in free cash flow for the full year.
Overseeing air traffic control review; issued statement on the incident
Late Sunday night, an Air Canada Express jet landing at New York's LaGuardia struck a Port Authority fire truck on an active runway, killing both pilots—Captain Antoine Forest, 30, and First Officer MacKenzie Gunther. Forty-one of the 76 people aboard were hospitalized, including a flight attendant ejected from her seat while strapped in. The airport shut down for 14 hours, canceling more than 600 flights.
Updated May 30
Imposed ground delays and ground stops at major Northeast airports
A nor'easter developed into a bomb cyclone on February 22-23, 2026, burying the Interstate 95 corridor from Philadelphia to Boston under 1 to 2 feet of heavy, wet snow. In parts of New Jersey, totals exceeded 2 feet; Lyndhurst received 30.7 inches while New York City got 19 inches on February 24.
Updated May 29
Administering final year of IIJA airport grant programs
For five years, the largest airport-funding program in American history pumped roughly $3 billion a year into runways, terminals, and taxiways at more than 3,300 airports. In December 2025, the FAA released the final round: $2.89 billion in Airport Infrastructure Grant allocations for 2026 and approximately $1 billion for the last Airport Terminal Program competition, with no successor program planned.
Administering final year of five-year IIJA tower grant program
For decades, small and regional airports have relied on aging control towers from the 1960s and 1970s, receiving limited federal help for upgrades. On January 21, 2026, the FAA opened a grant window offering up to $120 million at 100% federal cost for tower reconstruction and remote tower construction.
Reopened Part 108 comment period January 28 – February 11, 2026; expected to finalize rule by mid-March 2026; facing pressure to impose stricter safety oversight before finalization
For nearly a decade, every U.S. commercial drone operator wanting to fly beyond a pilot's line of sight needed an individual FAA waiver — a slow, bespoke process that capped the industry at small pilot programs. On August 7, 2025, the FAA proposed Part 108: a new, standardized framework for routine beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) operations replacing individual waivers. In January 2026, the FAA reopened the comment period for 14 days (closing February 11, 2026) to refine the rule before finalizing it in March 2026.
Approving rate increases one step at a time
Boeing's 737 factory in Renton, Washington has spent 28 months under a federal speed limit. On Wednesday, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it could go a little faster — from 42 jets a month to 47.
Updated May 27
Implementing reforms under intense scrutiny
The National Transportation Safety Board concluded its investigation into the January 2025 collision between American Airlines Flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River—the deadliest U.S. aviation accident since 2001. All 67 people aboard both aircraft died, including 28 members of the figure skating community returning from a national development camp. The NTSB found the crash was '100% preventable' and issued 50 safety recommendations, with 32 directed at the Federal Aviation Administration.
Updated May 23
Finalizing BVLOS drone rules
Zipline spent eight years delivering blood to remote Rwandan clinics before Americans could order lunch from one of its drones. Now the company has crossed 2 million commercial deliveries—more than every competitor combined—and raised $600 million in January 2026 to bring its autonomous aircraft to Houston and Phoenix. At a $7.6 billion valuation, Zipline's strategy is proving the drone delivery market by starting where regulation permitted, then scaling into U.S. consumer markets.
Updated May 22
Publishes the annual GA Safety Fact Sheet and certifies safety equipment
In 1994, small planes in the United States killed people at a rate of 1.73 fatal accidents per 100,000 flight hours. Three decades later, the rate has fallen by more than half.
Under pressure to close Part 135 weight-and-balance loophole
Ten people died when Bering Air Flight 445 crashed onto Norton Sound sea ice on February 6, 2025. The Cessna 208B was 1,058 pounds overweight for icing—a fact crash investigators discovered because the FAA doesn't require single-engine commuter operators to keep load manifests.
Updated May 19
Sets the licensing and corrective-action bar that determines whether cadence is real
On December 20, 2025, Blue Origin flew New Shepard NS-37—and a line quietly snapped. Michaela "Michi" Benthaus became the first wheelchair user to cross the Kármán line, float free in microgravity, and come home safely.
Updated May 15
Owner/operator of the National Airspace System; committing near-term funding and deadlines
The FAA is no longer talking about “modernization” like it’s a distant science project. In a House hearing, Administrator Bryan Bedford said the agency will commit $6 billion by the end of 2025 to upgrade ATC telecom networks and radar surveillance, with a target deployment date of 2028.
Primary safety regulator for Boeing aircraft; imposes MAX groundings and oversight
On December 8, 2025, Boeing completed its $4.7 billion acquisition of Spirit AeroSystems, valuing the deal at about $8.3 billion including debt. The transaction reversed a 2005 spin‑off that created the world's largest independent aerostructures supplier.
Updated May 10
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