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CREATION OF ICAO

by Zeeshan Azeem

OBJECTIVES OF ICAO

Insure that the rights of contracting States are fully respected and that every contracting State has a fair opportunity to operate international airlines

Meet the needs of the peoples of the world for safe, regular, efficient and economical air transport

Encourage the development of airways, airports, and air navigation facilities for international civil aviation

Encourage the arts of aircraft design and operation for peaceful purposes

Insure the safe and orderly growth of international civil aviation throughout the world

Presented by Zeeshan Azeem

Star Air Aviation

12 May 2014

On 1 January 1914 the first regular - scheduled passenger service started in Florida, USA. It was a modest beginning with two flights a day across Tampa Bay carrying one passenger each way.

In 14 May 1908, Mr. Charles Furnas, flying with Wilbur Wright at Kitty Hawk became the world's first airplane passenger

Heading of the “Journal” of the Conference, dated 7 December 1944,

Signatures of the US Delegates on the original Chicago Convention, with those of L. Welch Pogue and Edward Warner, respectively Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board

ICAO came into existence on 4 April 1947, after 26 states had ratified the convention.

The Convention on International Civil Aviation, also known as the Chicago Convention, provided the establishment of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)

On 22 May 1917 a load of 220 kg. of mail was carried from Turin to Rome, Italy, opening the route for air mail and freight transport.

The end of the Second World War marked the beginning of the new era of rapid growth of civil aviation based on bigger and better airplanes, offering safer and cheaper commercial air transport. The age of modern civil aviation had taken-off.

Chicago Convention – photos showing the Stevens Hotel

1 November 1944 – Opening Session of the Chicago Conference in the Grand Ballroom of the Stevens Hotel, Chicago.

The period before the Second World War brought the global expansion of civil aviation. By 1939 almost the entire world was covered by an inter-connecting air transport system organized by 10 world airlines and 19 intercontinental air routes.

On November 1944, representatives of 52 nations came together at Chicago, to create a framework for the growth anticipated in world civil aviation.

photo credit Nasa / Goddard Space Flight Center / Reto Stöckli

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