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. At the ...

The Federal Aviation Administration directed staff to locate tens of millions of dollars for a Starlink deal, sources tell ...

Republic Airways CEO Bryan Bedford is reportedly the top candidate to lead the Federal Aviation Administration, according to a report.

It's he starkest test yet of Musk’s ability to not just shrink government, but to turn his political power into potential ...

Elon Musk's team is pushing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to modernize its outdated telecommunications systems ...

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

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 ...

Elon Musk’s satellite business Starlink may not have officially taken over Verizon’s $2.4 billion contract with the Federal Aviation Administration yet to upgrade the systems it uses to manage ...

The FAA’s previous Senate-confirmed administrator Michael Whitaker abruptly left his post just as Donald Trump took office in January, under pressure from Musk, who had publicly demanded his ...

That put a limited number of areas in play: Chicago, Dallas and New York. But in a January 2024 letter to then-FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker, Oklahoma’s seven Senate and House members made ...

The Federal Aviation Administration ... the FAA is facing its first major aviation disaster in 16 years without a confirmed leader, following the departure of Michael Whitaker.