History

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 […]

On Dec. 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright executed the first sustained flight in Kitty Hawk, N.C. Aviation has come a long way in the last 119 years, and NATCA is proud to represent thousands of […]

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 […]