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| Noun | 1. An agency in the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the safety of civilian aviation.[Wordnet]. | |
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"FAA" is a common misspelling or typo for: far, fat, fan, fa, fax, CAA, fad, EAA, FSS, AFA, DAA, FWA, FAQ, FAAB. |
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Date "FAA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1573. (references) |
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Aerospace | 1: Federal Aviation Administration. (references) | ||
| 2: False Alarm Avoidance. (references) | |||
| 3: Federal Aviation Administration (DOT). (references) | |||
| 4: Federal Aviation Agency. (references) | |||
| 5: Federal Aviation Administration. (references) | |||
| Census | Designation for the (Federal Aviation Administration), Department of Transportation. (references) | ||
| Environment | Flame atomic adsorption. (references) | ||
| Military | 1: Family Allowance Class A. (references) | ||
| 2: 1) Federal Aviation Administration. 2) Foreign Assistance Act. (references) | |||
| 3: Functional Area Analysis; Federal Aviation Administration;. (references) | |||
| 4: Foreign Assistance Act. (references) | |||
| 5: Fleet Air Arm (GB). (references) | |||
| Oceanography | 1: U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (DOT). (references) | ||
| 2: South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency. (references) | |||
| Technology | Fund Administering Activity. (references) | ||
| Transportation | Federal Aviation Administration: - Eastern Region - FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center. (references) | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
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| No. 1790 Squadron FAA | No. 1790 Squadron of the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom was formed on 1 January 1945 at Burscough as a night fighter squadron. It was initially equipped with Fairey Firefly Is, replaced in May of 1945 by Firefly INFs, which were fitted with a US-derived ASV radar. The squadron joined HMS Vindex on 24 June, bound for Australia, with the ship arriving as the war ended. The squadron was disbanded on 3 June 1946 at Devonport. (references) | ||
| No. 714 Squadron FAA | No. 714 Squadron of the British Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm was an operational training squadron based at Crimond in Aberdeenshire in April 1945. (references) | ||
| No. 811 Squadron FAA | No. 811 Squadron is a squadron of Britain's Fleet Air Arm. (references) | ||
| No. 835 Squadron FAA | No. 835 Squadron was a squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm formed originally as a Fairey Swordfish unit around 1941. (references) | ||
| No. 836 Squadron FAA | No. 836 Squadron was a squadron of the British Fleet Air Arm. Formed in March 1943 to provide personnel and aircraft for the MAC ships, 836 was based at Maydown in Northern Ireland, not far from Lough Foyle, and commanded by Lieutenant-Commander Ransford Slater. (references) | ||
| No. 849 Squadron FAA | No. 849 Squadron operates the Sea King Mk7 Airborne Surveillance and Control (ASaC) helicopter. The squadron has its headquarters at RNAS Culdrose in Cornwall and operates 9 aircraft. It is divided into four elements - two flights (A and B), HQ and the Operational Conversion Unit (OCU). Historically a Flight is assigned to each of the two active aircraft carriers in the Royal Navy but this system is currently changing. The squadron suffered heavy losses during the 2003 invasion of Iraq when two of its aircraft operating from HMS Ark Royal collided during low visibility conditions. Six squadron members and an American exchange officer were killed in the collision. (references) | ||
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| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) | Aerospace | Created by the Act that established the Department of Transportation, this government agency oversees all aviation within the United States. The FAA controls, for example, airport safety, air traffic control, licensing of pilots, inspection of aircraft, and investigates aviation mishaps. (references) | |
| FAA (land status records) | Environment | Federal Aviation Administration. (references) | |
| FAA ASD | Aerospace | Federal Aviation Administration ASD. (references) | |
| FAA facilities | Aerospace | Are ATCTs providing anywhere from full radar approach control services to low activity VFR air traffic control services. These towered airports are staffed by FAA air traffic controllers. (references) | |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| FAA | English | Fleet Air Arm | N/A | |
| FAA | French | Facturation des appels à l'Assistance-annuaire | Business, Post & Telecom | |
| FAA | Italian | Amministrazione federale per l'aviazione | Transportation | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
Topics by Level of Interest: FAA | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| FAA Practical Test | 5 | FAA (alternative meanings) | 3 | |
| FAA airport categories | 5 | FAA (Forças Armadas Angolanas) | 4 | |
| FAA (Forças Armadas Angolanas) | 4 | FAA 1600.2 | 3 | |
| FAA 1600.2 | 3 | FAA airport categories | 5 | |
| FAA (alternative meanings) | 3 | FAA Practical Test | 5 | |
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Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
| Language | Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses) | |||
| Chinese Simplified | 联邦航空部 (faa), 联邦航空管理局 (faa), 联邦航空局的私人飞行员考试 (faa private pilot test), faa 私人飞行员 (faa private pilot), 联邦航空管理局认可的 (faa approved). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, FAA. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Chinese Traditional | 聯邦航空部 (faa), 聯邦航空管理局 (faa), 美國聯邦飛行總署 (FAA), 全損險 (FAA, total loss only), 聯邦航空局的私人飛行員考試 (faa private pilot test), faa 私人飛行員 (faa private pilot), 聯邦航空管理局認可的 (faa approved). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, FAA. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Japanese | アメリカ連邦航空局 (FAA), 航空身体検査指定医 (designated FAA medical examiner). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, FAA. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations). | Top | |||
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