The NATCA Historical Committee (NHC) met on Dec. 14-15, 2023, at the National Office in Washington. The Committee is charged with the exclusive purpose of cataloging, documenting, and archiving the official history of the Union. “Our […]
Historical Committee News
Archie League and the Genesis of Federal Air Traffic Control
Archie League — a name reverently whispered through the annals of aviation history and the namesake of NATCA’s annual award presented at our Union’s Communicating for Safety conference each year, honoring the best aviation “saves” by […]
NATCA Honors the 42nd Anniversary of PATCO Strike
Forty-two years ago, our union brothers and sisters took a remarkably brave and honorable stand for our profession and the safety of the National Airspace System (NAS). On Aug. 3, 1981, 13,000 Professional Air Traffic Controllers […]
NATCA This Sunday Marks 35th Anniversary of FLRA Certification
On Sept. 23-24, 1986, 72 delegates attended NATCA’s founding convention in Chicago including provisional representatives from each of the FAA’s nine regions. John Thornton, the founding father of NATCA, announced that NATCA had collected more than […]
Historical Committee Meets at National Office to Continue the Large Task of Cataloguing NATCA’s History
The charge of the National Historical Committee (NHC), which met last week at the National Office in Washington, D.C., is to catalogue, document, and archive the history of NATCA. “In order to understand what has been […]
NATCAversary: 10 Years Ago, Fair Collective Bargaining Process Was Secured
NATCA is marking a notable anniversary: Ten years ago, on Feb. 14, 2012, President Obama signed H.R. 658, the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012. It was the final step in making FAA Reauthorization a […]
