The FAA said the aircraft had flown more than 200 times in the unsafe condition before the problem was discovered.
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The FAA said the aircraft was safe to fly, but needed a comprehensive review to ensure there were no flaws to be corrected.
After just six years of selling FAA-certified aircraft, the Duluth, Minn. privately held company in 2005 surpassed Cessna in sales of piston aircraft, as measured by dollar volume.
Huerta also explained why the FAA allowed the aircraft to fly on January 11 after a battery caught fire on a plane in Boston -- but grounded it following a 787 emergency landing in Japan four days later prompted by a battery alarm and a report of a burning smell.
To save manpower, the FAA designates employees at aircraft makers to oversee the safety testing of new planes.
The FAA spokesman said the aircraft is registered to a Santa Monica resident.
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Regulators, particularly the FAA, tested the aircraft and approved it for commercial flight.
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In 2012 the FAA established the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Office to figure out how to certify and regulate drone traffic in U.S. airspace.
Other types of unmanned aircraft systems need FAA approval, according to the agency.
The FAA has restricted all civilian aircraft within 3, 000 feet of the surface over an area that appears to include Watertown, Belmont and parts of Boston and Cambridge in Massachusetts, an FAA spokesman said.
The Port Authority has been working with the Federal Aviation Administration to rectify the failures, detailed in a new agreement between the Port Authority and the FAA to create an independent aircraft rescue and firefighting force without additional duties as police officers.
Just fly it and maintain the aircraft to all the FAA standards.
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The FAA's grounding of the aircraft was recognized by regulatory agencies worldwide.
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After a public outcry, Congress in late 2011 forced the FAA to reverse course and allow aircraft owners to block their flight information for any reason.
In September, the NTSB recommended the FAA require large planes and other aircraft on which the wingtips are not easily visible from the cockpit to have cameras or other devices to monitor the wings.
On Wednesday night, Chile-based LAN Airlines said it was temporarily grounding its three Boeing 787 aircraft in compliance with the FAA's recommendation.
The FAA announced a safety review of the aircraft last week.
The FAA alleges US Airways operated the eight aircraft on a total of 1, 647 flights last fall and winter while the planes were in a potentially unsafe condition.
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The FAA plans to have a system whereby each aircraft in free flight has a satellite-linked probe that tells the pilot if another aircraft is within 20 miles.
The FAA has also approved limited test flights for two aircraft to test the changes in the batteries.
The FAA says it will closely monitor modifications of the aircraft in the U.S. fleet in order to assure proper installation, and that it will stage teams of inspectors at the modification locations.
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Regulators in the U.S. and Japan, along with engineers at Boeing, have been trying to figure out what caused fires on several Dreamliners, forcing the FAA and other agencies to ground all the operating aircraft indefinitely.
Studies by Blue Ribbon committees following questions about the relationship between the FAA, in its role as regulator, and the aircraft manufacturer have documented the efficacy of the certification process.
Before further flight, operators of U.S.-registered, Boeing 787 aircraft must demonstrate to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that the batteries are safe.
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In recent years, the FAA has relied to a greater extent on designated employees of aircraft makers to conduct the safety testing necessary of certification.
The FAA must determine whether the wind farm would pose a risk to aircraft radar.
The commission also recommends that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) adopt new protocols for dealing with the safety of aging aircraft.
The FAA said it issued an AD requiring airlines to inspect Airbus A320 aircraft for possible cracking of a landing gear part.
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As a condition of its return, FAA officials said, the airline will operate a substantially smaller fleet of aircraft.
The FAA's approval of the plan allows for limited test flights for two aircraft equipped with prototype versions of the battery fix.
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