ATC MIDTERM EXAM | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
2025/2026 UPDATE | WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION
What year was the Air Commerce Act signed? Answer - 1926
Who was the first Air Traffic Controller? Where was he hired? What year?
Answer - Archie League, St. Louis, 1929
What airport had the first radio equipped control room? Answer - Cleveland
What were the items called that controllers represent planes with? Answer -
Shrimp boats
What year was the Civil Aeronautics Authority (CAA) established? Answer -
1938
What happened June 30, 1956 that warranted $250 million in ATC upgrades?
Answer - Midair collision over the grand canyon. Between United Flight and
TWA
1936 the Commerce Department called for three Air Route Air Traffic
Controllers in which cities? Answer - Chicago, Cleveland, Newark
What year was the FAA created? Answer - 1958
, Prior to rotating beacons. pilots many times used what to aid them during
night time navigation? Answer - Bonfires
What year was the Wright Brothers first flight? Answer - 1903
What year was the first passenger sea plane service between Tampa and St.
Petersburg Florida? Answer - 1914
Within the FAA is the Air Traffic Organization (ATO.) What is the title of the
person running the ATO? Answer - COO
Mission Support is divided into 3 services areas. What are they? Answer -
Eastern, Central, and Western
The service area provide a standardization of processes, procedures, and one
other function. What is it? Answer - Quality assurance
The ATC operations is made up of several branches. What are they? Answer -
Terminal, Enroute, Air Traffic, Flight service, Systems Operations or Traffic
Management
Terminal facilities airport control towers provide services to aircraft that are...?
Answer - Operating within the vicinity of the airport
TRACONS provides services to aircraft that are...? Answer - arriving, departing,
enroute
2025/2026 UPDATE | WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION
What year was the Air Commerce Act signed? Answer - 1926
Who was the first Air Traffic Controller? Where was he hired? What year?
Answer - Archie League, St. Louis, 1929
What airport had the first radio equipped control room? Answer - Cleveland
What were the items called that controllers represent planes with? Answer -
Shrimp boats
What year was the Civil Aeronautics Authority (CAA) established? Answer -
1938
What happened June 30, 1956 that warranted $250 million in ATC upgrades?
Answer - Midair collision over the grand canyon. Between United Flight and
TWA
1936 the Commerce Department called for three Air Route Air Traffic
Controllers in which cities? Answer - Chicago, Cleveland, Newark
What year was the FAA created? Answer - 1958
, Prior to rotating beacons. pilots many times used what to aid them during
night time navigation? Answer - Bonfires
What year was the Wright Brothers first flight? Answer - 1903
What year was the first passenger sea plane service between Tampa and St.
Petersburg Florida? Answer - 1914
Within the FAA is the Air Traffic Organization (ATO.) What is the title of the
person running the ATO? Answer - COO
Mission Support is divided into 3 services areas. What are they? Answer -
Eastern, Central, and Western
The service area provide a standardization of processes, procedures, and one
other function. What is it? Answer - Quality assurance
The ATC operations is made up of several branches. What are they? Answer -
Terminal, Enroute, Air Traffic, Flight service, Systems Operations or Traffic
Management
Terminal facilities airport control towers provide services to aircraft that are...?
Answer - Operating within the vicinity of the airport
TRACONS provides services to aircraft that are...? Answer - arriving, departing,
enroute
