As Minister of Transport, Brown oversaw the public bus system, taxis, marine ports and ferries, vehicle licensing, and aviation.

This time the Congressional committees overseeing aviation refused to help.

Mr. Slater will preside over a department that oversees commercial aviation and mass transportation as well as the highways that crisscross a nation of people long in love with their cars.

As aviation became popular, and new international and national flight routes were created, the government saw the need to create a more organized and independent agency to oversee civil aviation.

"We used to be more about observation," said Assistant Chief Charles Kammerdener, who oversees aviation as well as the department's other elite units, including emergency services and harbor patrol.

The United Nations agency that oversees civil aviation decided on Friday to resume its long dormant inquiry into the downing in 1983 of a South Korean airliner by a Soviet fighter.

It oversees civil aviation and investigates aviation accidents and incidents.

It oversees highways, mass transit, railroads, aviation, ports, pipelines, and more.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) is a government agency of Guyana overseeing civil aviation.

As the capitol of the United States of America, Washington D.C. is the headquarters for many agencies that oversee aviation, influence aviation policy, and use aviation resources.