Civil Aviation Authorities

The Convention on International Civil Aviation (the “Chicago Convention”) was originally established in 1944; it states that signatories should collectively work to harmonize and standardize the use of airspace for safety, efficiency and regularity of air transport. Each signatory country, of which there are at least 188, has a civil aviation authority (such as the FAA in the United States) to oversee the following areas of civil aviation:

• Personnel licensing — regulating the basic training and issuance of licenses and certificates.
• Flight operations — carrying out safety oversight of commercial operators.
• Airworthiness — issuing certificates of registration and certificates of airworthiness to civil aircraft, and overseeing the safety of aircraft maintenance organizations.
• Aerodromes — designing and constructing aerodrome facilities.
• Air traffic services — managing the traffic inside of a country’s airspace.

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