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On May 13, 1946, President Harry Truman signed the Federal Airport Act that established the Federal-Aid Airport Program, the first peacetime program of financial aid aimed exclusively at promoting development of the nation's civil airports.

An Act to provide for the expansion and improvement of the Nation's airport and airway system, for the imposition of airport and airway user charges, and for other purposes.

Section 520 and its prcdccessor, Section 30 of the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970, added sex and creed to the list of race, color, or national origin as prohibited bases of discrimination with regard to nondiscrimination in the FAA's grant program.

Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make grants from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for airport development and planning in the form of project grants, block-grants, or block-grant supplements.

The Airport and Airway Revenue Act of 1970 (P.L. 91-258) created the Trust Fund to provide a dedicated source of funding for the U.S. aviation system, independent of the General Fund.

Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make grants from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for airport development and planning in the form of project grants, block-grants, or block-grant supplements.

18The Federal Aviation Act of 1958 directs the FAA to promote safety of flight of civil aircraft in air commerce prescribing and revising minimum standards for design, materials, construction, and so on.

In response to an increasingly congested national airspace, the Federal Aviation Agency was created in 1958. While the Agency had a slightly different name, its core mission was no different than that of the modern FAA — to provide for the safe and efficient use of the national airspace.