Federal Aviation Administration

5 questions … for Tracy Balazs, president and CEO of Federal Staffing Resources LLC

2013-05-19 00:00:00

Tracy Balazs, the president and CEO of an Annapolis-based staffing firm, was named Entrepreneurial Success of the Year last month by the Baltimore district office of the U.S. Small Business Administration. She founded the company, Federal Staffing...

Five Md. air traffic towers will remain open

2013-05-10 14:51:00

Five air traffic control towers in Maryland that are part of 149 "low activity" towers nationwide will remain open through the end of the September, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced Friday. The towers, including those at Martin State...

Amateur airplane builders aren't deterred by fatal crash

2013-05-13 18:16:00

Wings stood off to one side. The propeller lay in a carton. But the main part of Carl Kesselring's pet project was clearly recognizable as an airplane in progress. "I don't have fear of getting in an airplane," he said, standing in a hangar in...

Investigators open probe into airplane crash that killed father and son

2013-05-06 18:05:00

Federal investigators began examining Monday the wreckage of a two-seater, home-built airplane that crashed Sunday in Virginia, killing a man from Davidsonville and his son from Westminster, the father of 10 children. On Saturday, experimental...

The sequester gives Obama one more chance to blow it

2013-05-06 08:57:00

In President Barack Obama's running argument with the Republicans in Congress over who's responsible for the legislative stalemate on Capitol Hill, he suffers self-inflicted wounds by continuing to run up the same white flag that undermined his own...

Two Baltimore-area residents killed in small plane crash in Virginia

2013-05-05 19:43:00

Two Baltimore-area residents were killed in a small plane crash in Virginia on Saturday, the Virginia State Police said Sunday. The men were identified as Berry Raymond Newgent, 73, of Davidsonville, and Thomas Berry Newgent, 51, of Westminster. Berry...

Five questions for Christopher Lee

2013-05-04 00:00:00

Christopher Lee cut his teeth on public-private partnerships 26 years ago as a Lehman Brothers executive in charge of financing projects in Asia. He put together a consortium of local investors to build a $1.8 billion, 12-mile toll road in Bangkok....

Md. airport towers appear safe from federal cuts

2013-05-01 17:52:17

Five air traffic control towers in Maryland that had been scheduled to shut down in June as a result of federal budget cuts are now expected to remain open, lawmakers said Wednesday — easing fears that the closures could back up flights at BWI...

Congress flies blind

2013-04-29 09:42:00

What does it require to get members of Congress to take action quickly and decisively on an issue of federal spending? Now we know. The possibility that they will be delayed in an airport terminal somewhere waiting for a flight out of town is apparently...

BWI weather observers at risk in federal aviation cuts

2013-04-26 12:21:00

While the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday approved a Senate plan to avoid furloughs of air traffic controlllers, positions responsible for weather observation at BWI Marshall Airport and other airports across the country are at risk. The Federal...

About 400 U.S. flights delayed as sequestration takes hold

2013-04-23 00:00:00

Sequestration is starting to frustrate air travelers. About 400 flights were delayed Sunday because of air traffic controller furloughs, the Federal Aviation Administration said, and a few more interruptions were reported Monday, though the nation's air...

Aiming high in federal contracting

2013-04-15 11:58:00

As federal agencies pull back on spending, 7Delta's strategy is thinking big. The Columbia information technology firm, which grew by focusing on work for one federal agency, is going after larger contracts and broadening its reach. It's a...

A long line of passengers wait to enter the security checkpoint before boarding their aircraft at Reagan National Airport in Washington.

2013-04-26 09:00:58

Boeing has delivered 50 787s to eight airlines worldwide, including United Airlines, the only U.S. carrier that has 787s in its fleet. Above, an All Nippon Airways plane sits at Boeing's delivery center in Everett, Wash.

2013-04-03 00:00:00

LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 01: American Airlines employee Anita Vaccaro (L) holds a sign as she protests in front of Tom Bradley International terminal in opposition to the FAA's recent decision to start allowing small pocket knives back on board jetliners on April 1, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.

2013-04-01 00:00:00