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FAA

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See also: faa, fáa, , faʻa, and fa'a

English

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Proper noun

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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

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(British maritime armed air service):

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

(U.S. aviation):

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