An agency in the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the safety of civilian aviation
(Noun)
Synonyms:
federal-aviation-agency
Faa Sentence Examples
Where the frontier between Egypt and the Sudan reaches the sea is Ras Elba (see further Faa iEA).
As a result, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) made a decision to ban the use of this product by people working as air traffic controllers and pilots.
If flying, be sure your crate is approved by the USDA and FAA.
The numbers are interesting, but a report by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cautions "...there currently is no evidence in accident data that would support the ranking of individual airlines based on their safety records..."
The FAA points out that air accidents are infrequent, and there is no way to use information on past accidents to predict future safety.