Dec. 12 (UPI) --FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker will resign on President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration Jan. 20, according to a letter he sent to the FAA workforce. Whitaker said serving as ...

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Whitaker announced Thursday he will resign Jan. 20 amid ongoing tensions with SpaceX over regulatory compliance and launch permits.

The move by Michael Whitaker means the FAA has no Senate-confirmed leader for one of the biggest crises in its history because he quit before Donald Trump took office. Whitaker ran the FAA for ...

NEW YORK—Two “tours of duty” in the leadership ranks of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) afforded Michael Whitaker time to form a few views on how to make the agency more effective.

In January 2024, former President Joe Biden's FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker imposed a 38-plane monthly production cap after a mid-air emergency on a new Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 that remains in ...

SpaceX strongly disputed Whitaker's comments, saying "every statement he made was incorrect." The FAA declined to respond. "SpaceX is the safest, most reliable launch provider in the world ...