faa
Every record this desk has filed under faa, newest first, each with the number of sources it can still show you.
FAA orders replacement of affected compressor blades in three Rolls-Royce Trent engine models
The FAA has filed a final directive for Rolls-Royce Trent 768-60, 772-60 and 772B-60 engines after reports of nonconforming compressor-blade repairs. It requires affected blades to be removed and replaced with serviceable parts. The FAA estimates eight affected engines on U.S.-registered aircraft. Publication is scheduled for October 13, with November 17 effectiveness listed in the Register metadata.
Also filed underaviationrolls-royceengine-safetyairworthiness
FAA proposes cleaning and testing Airbus H160-B emergency window systems after a blocked release
The FAA proposes a directive for Airbus H160-B helicopters after a report that a window's jettison mechanism could not operate. The proposal would require window removal, rope cleaning and operational testing. FAA estimates 17 U.S.-registered helicopters would be affected if adopted. The inspection copy is scheduled for October 13 publication and brackets a 45-day comment window, reaching November 27 by the desk's count.
Also filed underairbus-helicoptersemergency-exitsaviation-safetyproposed-rule
FAA files final rule prohibiting further Elixir aircraft flights until approved corrective actions are completed
An FAA directive filed October 8 would prohibit further flight of all Elixir Model Elixir airplanes until corrective actions approved by the agency are completed. It follows a fatal production-flight accident whose cause remains under investigation. The Register lists October 14 as the effective date and November 27 for comments, based on scheduled October 13 publication. FAA estimates three U.S.-registered airplanes are affected.
Also filed underaviation-safetyelixir-aircraftairworthiness-directivefederal-register
FAA proposes five separate rules the same day easing commercial rocket launch and reentry licensing, each with a November 4 comment deadline
The FAA filed five separate proposed rules for the same October 5 Federal Register issue, each easing a requirement a commercial rocket launch or reentry licensee must meet — lightning mitigation, blast-overpressure analysis, physical containment, flight-safety paperwork, and electronic application submission. Four amend the safety criteria in 14 CFR part 450; the fifth amends the application-filing procedures. The Federal Register's text for the scheduled issue gives all five the same comment deadline, November 4, 2026, through five separate dockets at regulations.gov.
Also filed undercommercial-spacerocket-launchesfederal-registerregulation
The FAA proposes inspecting elevator-control bearings on an estimated 95 U.S.-registered 737-8, 737-9 and 737-8200 airplanes after a report that the bearings may have been installed incorrectly in production, including without sealant, and the Boeing bulletin it would make mandatory gives operators 126 months to look.
A proposed airworthiness directive published September 21 (Docket No. FAA-2026-8811) would require detailed inspections of the elevator buss assembly bearings and bearing housings on certain Boeing 737-8, 737-9 and 737-8200 airplanes; an FAA directive from 2020 calls the first two the 737 MAX. The FAA says it received a report that the bearings 'could have been installed incorrectly (including being installed without the application of sealant) during production', which could lead to cracking in the bearings and housings and premature failure of the assembly's crank arms and could impact elevator pitch control. It estimates 95 U.S.-registered airplanes are affected, at $1,955 per airplane for the inspection and $185,725 for U.S. operators; replacing a whole assembly would cost an estimated $98,496. The deadline is not in the proposal. It sits in the Boeing bulletin posted in the docket: 126 months, which for airplanes already flying would count from the final rule's effective date, with no repeat inspection. Under the bulletin, a crack or missing sealant must be fixed before further flight. The 737 MAX-7, certified August 3, is not among the airplanes listed. Comments are due November 5, 2026.
Also filed underboeingaviation-safetyairworthiness-directivepublic-commentfederal-register
The FAA is rebuilding air traffic control on a three-year clock with $12.5 billion, and GAO says it has no full cost estimate and no single schedule — just 11,389 separate project schedules that do not connect.
GAO reported on September 14 on the Brand New Air Traffic Control System, the FAA's effort, announced in May 2025, to replace the radios, radars, telecommunications and displays controllers use to manage up to 45,000 flights a day. Congress appropriated $12.5 billion in July 2025. The first phase is due by December 2028 and is now projected at $10.6 billion; the second, replacing the core automation, needs about $10.2 billion more and has no start or finish date. GAO found the FAA has no comprehensive lifecycle cost estimate, after a blanket waiver exempted the program from nearly all of its own acquisition rules, and no integrated schedule to show whether 11,389 separate project timelines collide. Progress is real: about half the old copper lines have been replaced with fibre. GAO's conclusion: the FAA 'is buying delivery speed at the risk of cost uncertainty and potential disruptions.'
Also filed undergaoair-traffic-controlaviationinfrastructurepublic-spending
August 4: the year that was missing from our own Epstein file.
Hugin's largest case file recorded the Supreme Court declining to review a decision the file never contained. Between December 2023 and August 2025 it held no dated entries at all, with ten primary sources supporting nothing. A structural audit found it, then a second check found the same shape in the Boeing file — no entries for 2019, the year of the second 737 MAX crash and the grounding. Nine rows added across two cases, one date corrected against the opinion itself, one source demoted because it cannot be reached.
Also filed underepsteinboeingpublic-recordscase-filescorrectionsevidence-postureprimary-sourceauditcourt-recordstransparency
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