Page ContentThe International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is responsible for coordinating and developing global Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs), Procedures, and Guidance material…
Page ContentCAPSCA is funded through extra-budgetary resources provided by member States, intergovernmental organizations and other United Nations agencies. Resource mobilization is vital to overall…
Page ContentOn 6 June 1946, toward the conclusion of the first PICAO Interim Assembly, Montréal, Canada was selected as the permanent headquarters of the Organization, by 27 votes.The other…
Page ContentBy 1945, states both near and far were increasingly linked by privatized air transport, prompting officials with the still Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization (PICAO) to…
Page Content1916The First Conference of Pan-American Aeronautics, held in Santiago of Chile, recommends to the American Republics that consideration be given to the necessity to unify their aerial…
Page ContentChicago, Illinois, 1 November to 7 December 1944 In response to the invitation of the United States Government, representatives of 54 nations met at Chicago from November 1 to…
Page Content At the Chicago Conference, the drafters of the Convention on International Civil Aviation had anticipated the emergence of a United Nations type of post-war organization.…
Page ContentFew people are aware that ICAO had a precursor. The International Commission for Air Navigation (ICAN) was created by the Paris Convention on October 13, 1919 as part of a vast post-World…