FAA administrator Mike Whitaker announced he will resign instead of serving as the head of the agency in the second Trump administration, offering President-elect Donald Trump the chance to ...

Mike Whitaker announced his pending resignation in a message to employees of the FAA, which regulates airlines and aircraft manufacturers and manages the nation’s airspace. He became the agency ...

In the days following the Jan. 29, 2025, crash of a commercial plane with a Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C., social media posts suggested that Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, had pushed ...

WASHINGTON (WCAX) - Federal Aviation Administrator Mike Whitaker announced on Thursday that he is stepping down ahead of the incoming Trump administration. Whitaker, a Norwich, Vermont ...

Mike Whitaker, the previous FAA administrator, stepped down on Inauguration Day after just over a year on the job. He’d repeatedly clashed with Elon Musk — now in charge of a group tasked with ...

Former FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker resigned a day before Trump took office, bowing to pressure from SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk.