Michael Whitaker, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), officially stepped down on January 20, leaving the agency without a Senate-confirmed leader at a crucial time.His ...

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 ...

While Elon Musk hacks away at the federal bureaucracy in the name of “efficiency,” his company Starlink appears poised to ...

Musk called on former FAA administrator Michael Whitaker to resign over the fines, which Duffy pledged to review during his Senate confirmation hearing.

The FAA, for example, fined SpaceX last year for safety and regulatory violations. Afterward, Musk publicly demanded the agency’s previous Senate-confirmed administrator, Michael Whitaker ...

Former President Joe Biden in 2024 signed into law a FAA reauthorization bill that requires the agency to hire to the maximum ...

Musk also previously called for former FAA administrator Michael Whitaker to resign. Suspicions stepped up a notch last month, when United States secretary of transportation, Sean Duffy ...

Musk previously forced out FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker. This comes at a time of increased anxiety over flying. There have been four major plane crashes over the past month. On Monday ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is in turmoil, with deleterious effects that will extend to the avionics industry. For starters, the FAA is facing its first major aviation disaster in 16 ...

While that office may be ready to go to work, the FAA itself is not fully on the job. That’s because it’s without an administrator. Michael Whitaker, who had led the administration since Oct ...

The Federal Aviation Administration’s leader stepped down on Jan. 20, months after Elon Musk demanded that he quit. The move by Michael Whitaker means the FAA has no Senate-confirmed leader for ...