FAA

FAA

1. (aviation) Initialism of Federal Aviation Administration (agency regulating U.S. aviation).
   • 2007, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 4th Estate (2010), page 244:

     Again he bats back and forth the pages of the thick clipped sheaf of close-typed pages that comprise the results of the FAA investigation into Naomi’s fatal encounter with the northwest slope of Mount Dunkelblum.

   • 2024 August 19, “LAKETOWN 115-kV TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT IN CARVER COUNTY, MN”, in Great River Energy‎^[1], page 25:

     Great River Energy utilized the FAA’s Notice Criteria Tool² to determine if it would be required to file notice to the FAA prior to construction.

2. (law) Initialism of Federal Arbitration Act (9 USC 1).
3. (UK, military, nautical, aviation) Initialism of Fleet Air Arm (carrier-borne air force of the U.K.'s Royal Navy).

(British maritime armed air service):

• RNAS (predecessor, WWI)
• RAF (predecessor, interwar)
• RFC

(U.S. aviation):

• NASA
• NTSB
• IATA
• ICAO

• “FAA”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “FAA”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “FAA”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “FAA”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “the FAA” (US) / “the FAA” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.

• A.A.F., AAF, AFA

FAA f pl (plural only)

1. (Angola, military) initialism of Forças Armadas de Angola (“Armed Forces of Angola”)

   Coordinate term: FAPLA