FAA

See also: faa, fáa, få, faʻa, and fa'a

English

Proper noun

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.

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

Coordinate terms

(British maritime armed air service):

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

(U.S. aviation):

• NASA
• NTSB
• IATA
• ICAO

Further reading

• “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.

Anagrams

• A.A.F., AAF, AFA