This content is not included in
your SAE MOBILUS subscription, or you are not logged in.
The Road to Regulation
Technical Paper
2002-01-1507
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
Annotation ability available
Sector:
Language:
English
Abstract
The age of manned flight was born free of federal regulations during a 12-second flight that took place in 1903, and the new adventure of flight was to remain uncontrolled until the passage of the Air Commerce Act of 1926. This act has been called the “legislative cornerstone for the development of commercial aviation in America,” because it put in place the first federal agency with authority for licensing, inspection, and operation of aircraft.
This paper provides a review of those events that led up to the passage of the Air Commerce Act and then describes the process used to develop the first set of aviation regulations. Also included is a brief discussion on the company, its chief designer, and the airplane that received ATC No. 1 in March 1927.
Authors
Topic
Citation
Neal, R., "The Road to Regulation," SAE Technical Paper 2002-01-1507, 2002, https://doi.org/10.4271/2002-01-1507.Also In
References
- Williams Robert E. “First Around the World By Air,” Journal of the American Aviation Historical Society Fall 1999 162 181
- Leary William M. Aerial Pioneers – The U.S. Air Mail Service, 1918-1927 Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution Press 1985 309
- Holmes Donald B. Air Mail, An Illustrated History, 1793-1981 New York Crown Publishers, Inc. 1981 225
- Davies R.E.G. “Development of the Transcontinental Air Service, Part I,” Journal of the American Aviation Historical Society Spring 1978 60 71
- Schaufler Frank H. “U.S. Airmail 60 Years Young,” Journal of the American Aviation Historical Society Fall 1978 196 203
- Messimer Dwight R. No Margin for Error, The U.S. Navy's Transpacific Flight of 1925 Annapolis, Maryland Naval Institute Press 1981 167
- “Navy Ready for Hawaiian Flight,” Aviation September 17 1925 174 175
- “PN 9 No. 1 Lost on West Coast – Hawaiian Flight,” Aviation September 14 1925 315 317
- “PN 9 No. 1 Found off Hawaiian Islands,” Aviation September 21 1925 350 352
- Hook Thom Shenandoah Saga Annapolis Show Publishers 1973 208
- “A Twister Wrecks the Shenandoah,” Aviation September 14 1925 310 314
- “The Shenandoah Investigation,” Aviation October 5 1925 437 440
- “The Shenandoah Court Findings,” Aviation January 11 1926 44 46
- McClendon Earl R. Autonomy of the Air Arm Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office 1993 199
- Christy Joe American Air Power – The First 75 Years Blue Ridge Summit, PA Tau Books Inc. 1982
- “Col. Mitchell's Statements on Govt. Aviation,” Aviation September 14 1925 318 320
- “The Mitchell Trial,” Aviation November 23 1925 744 749
- “The Mitchell Trial,” Aviation December 7 1925 802 803
- “The Mitchell Trial,” Aviation December 28 1925 911
- “President Coolidge Appoints Air Board,” Aviation September 21 1925 354 355
- “President's Air Board Commences Sessions,” Aviation
- “The Air Board's Progress,” Aviation October 5 1925 422
- “The President's Air Board,” Aviation October 12 1925 50
- “President's Air Board Reports,” Aviation December 14 1925 834 837
- “The Bingham Bill,” Aviation December 28 1925
- “The Bingham Bill,” Aviation January 4 1926 7
- “The Merritt Bill Amends Bingham Bill,” Aviation March 22 1926 404 405
- “Legislation,” Aviation April 26 1926 623
- “Civil Aviation Bill Passes,” Aviation May 24 1926 786 787
- “The Air Commerce Act of 1926,” Aviation June 14 1926 904
- Lindbergh Charles A. The Spirit of St. Louis New York, NY Scribner 1953 562
- “Civil Aeronautics in the United States,” Aeronautics Bulletin No. 1 Washington, D.C. March 15 1928
- “The Proposed Air Regulations,” Aviation September 27 1926 548 550 552 554 556 558
- “The New Air Regulations,” Aviation October 11 1926 621
- “Modified Regulation,” Aviation October 26 1926 701
- “The Department of Commerce Issues Final Civil Air Regulations,” Aviation January 3 1927 32 38
- “Air Commerce Regulations,” Aero Digest January 1927 18 50 55
- “Views on the Air Regulations,” Aero Digest February 1927 100 102
- “First Inspection of an Operating Co.,” Aero Digest March 1927
- “Air Licenses to be Issued by the Dept. of Commerce,” Aviation April 18 1927 781 782
- “Federal Licenses Granted to 269 Pilots,” Aviation August 22 1927 418
- “Dept. of Commerce has Approved 21 Types of Airplane to Date,” Aviation February 13 1928 379
- “Tabulation Shows California and New York have Most Airplanes,” Aviation April 16 1928 998
- “The Buhl-Verville Aircraft Corporation Formed,” Aviation March 23 1925 324
- “Buhl-Verville Aircraft Company,” Aero Digest March 1926 156 157
- Juptner Joseph P. U.S. Civil Aircraft Series – Vol 1 Blue Ridge Summit, PA Tab Aero 1994 247
- “The Buhl-Verville Airster CW-3,” Aviation January 25 1926 111 112
- “The Buhl-Verville Airster,” Aero Digest March 1926 130 131
- “The Buhl-Verville Airster CW-3,” Aviation April 5 1926 505
- Komons Nick A. Bonfires to Beacons, Federal Civil Aviation Policy Under the Air Commerce Act, 1926-1938 Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution Press 1989 454
- Pattillo Donald M. A History in the Making, 80 Turbulent Years in the American General Aviation Industry New York McGraw Hill 1998 216
- Solberg Carl Conquest of the Skies, A History of Commercial Aviation in America Boston Little, Brown and Co. 1979 441
- Preston Edmund FAA Historical Chronology, Civil Aviation and the Federal Government 1926-1996 Washington, D.C. Supt of Docs 1998 375
- Thompson Scott A. “Aircraft of the FAA and its Predecessors Part 1, 1926-1934.” Journal of the American Aviation Historical Society Spring 2000 2 11
- “The Second National Aeronautics Conference,” Aviation December 19 1927 1458 1465
- Bowers Peter M. “The Travel Air Biplanes 1925-1930, Part I,” Journal of the American Aviation Historical Society Spring 1988 2 17
- Downs II Charles F “Calvin Coolidge, Dwight Morrow, and the Air Commerce Act Of 1926.” http://www.calvin-coolidge.org/pages/history/research/ccmf/downs.htm December 21 2001
- Schmeckebier Laurence F. The Aeronautics Branch, Department of Commerce, Its History, Activities and Organization Washington, D.C. The Brookings Institution 1930 147