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African States achieving more sustainable development through collaborative progress on civil…
Opening the Sixth ICAO Africa (AFI) Aviation Week in Kampala last week, ICAO Secretary General Dr. Fang Liu stressed how ongoing aviation safety, security, and capacity improvements all across Africa are maximizing air transport’s role as a…
The 2050 Vision for Sustainable Aviation Fuels: ICAO’s First Stocktaking Seminar
The first ICAO Stocktaking Seminar toward the 2050 Vision for Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFS2019) was held in Montreal from 30 April to 1 May 2019. This event was organized in response to a decision of the second ICAO Conference on…
UAS Traffic Management (UTM) Request for Information: One month left
As the development of UAS Traffic Management (UTM) continues to advance, there remains a need to focus on the next evolution of the ability for aircraft, both manned and unmanned, to safely integrate into a finite airspace structure. The…
ICAO and ITU: Celebrating a crucial cooperation at the heart of aeronautical telecommunications
With headquarters in Geneva, the International Telecommunication Union is the eldest organization in the United Nations family still in existence. It was founded as the International Telegraph Union in Paris on 17 May 1865 by its twenty…
The evolution of the Airborne collision avoidance system (ACAS) and introduction of ACAS X
Collisions between passenger aircraft are among the most catastrophic accidents imaginable. The first mid-air collision occurred in 1956 over the Grand Canyon, killing all 128 passengers and the crew of both airliners. As a result, in the…
Celebrating the history of Aeronautical Information Services
One of the most vital roles in support of international civil aviation is the provision of Aeronautical Information Services (AIS), the objective of which is to ensure uniformity and consistency in the flow of aeronautical information/data…