Overview

In accordance with 5 USC 552(a)(2), the following four categories of records (“Reading Room” records) are available without the need for a FOIA request. Only Reading Room records created on or after November 1, 1996 must be made available electronically, and we make them available here.

Reading Room

Our Electronic Reading Room does not include records published in the Federal Register or regulations published in the Code of Federal Regulations, but those and other non-reading room records may be found on other FAA Web sites (including some of the sites that are linked to from this Electronic Reading Room).

Category 1: Final Opinions/Orders in Adjudicated Cases

• Acquisition Dispute Resolution Opinions
• Civil Penalty Adjudicated Cases
• Decisions under 14 CFR Part 13 and 14 CFR Part 16

Category 2: Policy Statements/Interpretations

• Acquisition Management System
• Current & Historical FAA Regulations
• Regulatory Interpretations and Chief Counsel's Opinions

Category 3: Manuals/Instructions to Staff Affecting the Public

• Orders & Notices

Category 4: Records Frequently Requested under FOIA

• ADS-B Ground Station Information (as of 8/31/2018) 

• Accident & Incident Data

  • Reports
  • Runway Incursion Data & Research
     

• Air Traffic Controller Workforce

  • Air Traffic Controller Workforce Plan
  • Last Chance Decisions
  • Overtime Hours & Costs
  • Hotline Complaints Summary, January 2022-July 2023
  • FAA Part 121 Air Carriers Incidents Resulting in Certain Losses of Standard Separation Occurring,
    2022-2023
  • Copies of ATC-Alert ATC-Limited ATC-Zero FAA Forms 7230-4 Created, 2022-2023
     
• Aircraft Usage for FAA Aircraft N1, N2, and N3 from 1-20-21 to 12-13-22
   

• Aviation Safety Hotline System

  • 2016 Database Records
  • 2015 Database Records
  • Prior Years Database Records
     

• Boeing 737 Max Reading Room

• Civil Penalties

  • Proposed Civil Penalties

    • SpaceX
      • SpaceX - Notice of Proposed Civil Penalty (Case No. 2023WA990028)
      • SpaceX - Notice of Proposed Civil Penalty (Case No. 2023WA990031)
      • SpaceX - Notice of Proposed Civil Penalty (EIR No. 2022WA990004)
    • United Airlines - Civil Penalty Letter (FAA Case No. 2021GL330014)
       

  • Settlement Agreements

    • 2021 Boeing Settlement Agreement - Interference
    • 2015 Boeing Settlement Agreement
    • 2015 Boeing Settlement Agreement - Deferred Penalties
       

• FAA Employee Information

  • Employee Email & Duty Station (as of June 2024)
  • Desk Phone Numbers (as of June 2024)
     

• FOIA Logs

  • FY 2024 FOIA Logs
  • FY 2023 FOIA Logs
  • FY 2022 FOIA Logs
  • Prior Fiscal Years FOIA Logs
     

• Laser News, Laws & Civil Penalties

• Lycoming Crankshaft Special Certification Report (September 2004)
   

• McKinsey & Company

  Publications
  • Aviation Safety Certification: Diagnostic Results (8/1/2015)
  • FAA AVS Certification: Final Recommendations (10/23/2015)
  • Aircraft Certification Management Team (ACMT): Gallery Walk and Station Materials (November 2015)
     

• Mid-air Skydiving Plane Swap

  • Emergency Order of Revocation - Aikins
  • Emergency Order of Revocation - Farrington
  • Proposed Assessment of Civil Penalty - Aikins
     

• Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center Contracts

• Minority Serving Institutions

  • Internship Program Overview and Demographic Analysis 2023
  • Minority Serving Institutions Internship Response to U.S. House of Representatives Report 117-99 (2022) 
  • Demographic Data Analysis 2021-2022
  • Summer Internship Program 2020

• Obstruction Evaluation / Airport Airspace Analysis (OE/AAA)

• Pilot Records

  • Request 2015-004798
  • Request 2015-004666
     

• Purchase Card Holders

  • Purchase Card Holders' List
     

• Record of Decision

• Stale-dated & Uncashed Checks

  • FY 2025 Stale-dated & Uncashed Checks
  • FY 2024 Stale-dated & Uncashed Checks
  • FY 2023 Stale-dated & Uncashed Checks
  • Prior Fiscal Years Stale-dated & Uncashed Checks
     

• Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) & Small Unmanned Aerial System (sUAS)

  • Geographic Listing of Hobbyist & Non-hobbyist Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) Registry Enrollments & Registrants
  • Reported Encounters with Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
  • Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Facility Maps
  • Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Information Papers
  • Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Remote ID Data Exchange Cohort
  • Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Waivers
    • Recommended Functions
      

• Wings Over Dallas Airshow Collision (2022) - No Accident Package Created

  • Air Traffic Control Audio File
  • Air Traffic Control Radar Playback File (WMV | ZIP *)
    * Compressed Pilot Playback Data (.ppb)

Access to Non-Digital Records

Other Reading Room records maintained by FAA can be accessed from the DOT Dockets Office.

DOT Dockets Office
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Room W12-140
Washington, DC 20590
Telephone: (202) 366-9322 or (202) 366-9826
Toll-Free: (800) 647-5527

Hours of Operation: 9:00-5:00 ET, Monday-Friday, except Federal holidays

A computer terminal and printer are available at this location for accessing Electronic Reading Room records.