WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration will be awarding $22,759,818 in airport aid to airports in the Northern Mariana Islands to help respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency. This grant funding, announced yesterday by...

Citing an anticipated budget deficit, Commonwealth Ports Authority board chair Kimberlyn King-Hinds said the Federal Aviation Administration should take over the air control tower at the Francisco C. Ada/Saipan International Airport. At CPA board’s airport facilities committee...

Commonwealth Ports Authority board chair Kimberlyn King-Hinds disclosed yesterday that CPA has already submitted a complaint to the Federal Aviation Administration about the concerns of noise pollution and flying at near ground level of a red helicopter providing tour services on...

So the so-called divert airfield (read, full on training facility) on Tinian rears its ugly head in the news again. This time the story centers around the FAA spokesman who said that the “FAA will conduct aeronautical and environmental feasibility assessments—given the project’s...