Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Mike Whitaker is leaving at the start of President-elect Trump’s term, a source familiar with his plans told The Hill. Whitaker will resign on ...

In August, the FAA said it had doubled its enforcement ... threatening a lawsuit and even calling on the administrator to resign.

FILE - FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker testifies before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation, Sept. 24, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker, who has earned bipartisan respect in roughly a year on the job, said he will resign on Trump's inauguration day, in a letter to his workforce calling the job the ...

He served as deputy FAA administrator during the Obama administration, and later as an executive for an air taxi company. Less than three months into his tenure leading the FAA, a Boeing 737 Max ...