The Federal Civil Aviation Agency (Agencia Federal de Aviación Civil, AFAC) is a division of the
Secretariat of Communications and Transportation
The Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (''Secretaría de Infraestructura, Comunicaciones y Transportes'', SICT) of Mexico is the national federal entity that regulates commercial road traffic and broadcasting. Its he ...
of
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
. It replaced the former ''Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil'' (Directorate General of Civil Aeronautics or DGAC) on October 16, 2019. is an agency of the ''Subsecretaría de Transporte'' of the
Secretariat of Communications and Transportation
The Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (''Secretaría de Infraestructura, Comunicaciones y Transportes'', SICT) of Mexico is the national federal entity that regulates commercial road traffic and broadcasting. Its he ...
of
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
. Its main responsibilities is to act as
civil aviation authority
A civil aviation authority (CAA) is a national or supranational statutory authority that oversees the regulation of civil aviation, including the maintenance of an aircraft register.
Role
Due to the inherent dangers in the use of flight vehicles, ...
(CAA) and to investigate aviation accidents and incidents in Mexico.
History
The agency was originally established as the ''Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil''. Since December 2018, the DGAC's Director General is Lic. Rodrigo Vásquez-Colmenares Guzmán. He is the former CEO of
TAR Aerolíneas
Link Conexión Aérea, S.A. de C.V., operating as TAR Aerolíneas, is an airline in Mexico based in the city of Querétaro, the capital city of the homonymous state. It operates scheduled flights to 34 national destinations. Its inaugural flight ...
.
On October 16, 2019, a decree in the ''
Diario Oficial de la Federación
The (DOF; translated variously as the ''Official Journal of the Federation'' or else as ''Official Gazette of the Federation''), published daily by the government of Mexico, is the main official government publication in Mexico. It was founde ...
'' created a new autonomous agency within the SCT, the ''Agencia Federal de Aviación Civil'', to replace the DGAC. The new agency absorbs the old DGAC's assets, responsibilities and employees.
The upgraded agency was designed in the wake of recommendations from the American
International Aviation Safety Assessment Program The International Aviation Safety Assessment Program (IASA Program) is a program established by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 1992. The program is designed to evaluate the ability of a country's civil aviation authority or other ...
, which suggested the creation of a new body with operational, technical and administrative autonomy.
Accident investigations
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Western Airlines Flight 2605
Western Airlines Flight 2605, nicknamed the "Night Owl", was an international scheduled passenger flight from Los Angeles, California, to Mexico City, Mexico. On October 31, 1979, at 5:42 a.m. CST ( UTC−06:00), the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 o ...
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2008 Mexico City plane crash
On 4 November 2008 an official Mexican Secretariat of the Interior aircraft crashed in central Mexico City at around 18:45 local time. There were sixteen fatalities—all nine people on board and seven people on the ground. The plane, a Learjet ...
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2012 Mexico Learjet 25 crash
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AeroUnion Flight 302
AeroUnion Flight 302, operated by an Airbus A300B4-203F cargo aircraft, crashed in poor weather on final approach at General Mariano Escobedo International Airport, Monterrey, Mexico around 23:18 CDT on 13 April 2010, after a flight from Mexic ...
References
External links
Direction General of Civil Aeronautics- Secretariat of Communications and Transportation
DGAC-
Mexico City International Airport
Mexico City International Airport ( es, link=yes, Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México, AICM); officially ''Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez'' (Benito Juárez International Airport) is the main international airport serving ...
Required Details for Obtaining Mexico Overflight Permit Application
Government of Mexico
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
Aviation organizations based in Mexico
Civil aviation in Mexico
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