- Transport Secretary formally launches the National Aviation Authority network, focused on working together to tackle aviation challenges
- network to support resilience of the aviation sector, ensuring cohesive aviation policies going forward, collaborating on how new aviation technology is integrated and regulated and supporting efforts to reduce carbon emissions
- announced at Farnborough International Airshow and made up of regulators from the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
A collaborative international aviation network with global aviation leaders has been launched to tackle the sector’s biggest challenges.
The National Aviation Authorities (NAA) network’s mission is to foster cooperation between world-leading aviation regulators on emerging challenges in aviation and aerospace, improving innovation and safety.
These challenges include making the most of new technology, such as safely integrating new forms of transport like air taxis into some of the busiest airspace systems in the world, as well as supporting the sector’s efforts to reduce its carbon emissions and promote guilt-free flying.
The NAA network currently includes the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the USA. The network will exist to ensure that the aviation sector is the safest and most innovative and environmentally conscious it can be.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said:
The aviation industry has shown immense resilience these past 2 years, with governments…
