Member Focus

Below are Ed Mears’s reflections on what 30 years of NATCA means to him. Wow! Thirty years flies by quicker than I would have thought. Let me just share a couple of highlights of the early […]

NATCA/FAA Career: Nearly 10 years of FAA employment and a 10-year NATCA member. Born and raised, other places of living: I was born in Anchorage and I was mostly raised at the world famous Stony River […]

Kyle McHugh (in red on the left) celebrates labor day with his NATCA brothers and sisters. Born and raised, other places of living: Born and raised in Wellington, Ohio. Education: I received my degree from Community […]

NATCA/FAA career: I was hired in to the FAA in 2008 at Chicago TRACON (C90) as my first and probably last facility. Before I was a controller at C90, I was a member of the U.S. […]

Tony Walsh (right) with his wife, Penny (left), and children Tyler, Hayley, Jacob and Erin (center). NATCA/FAA career: I was hired into New York Center (ZNY) from the Mid-America Resource Consortium (MARC) program in January 1997. […]

This story was published by the Federal Aviation Administration this week on MyFAA and Focus FAA. Heather Hruz had only been certified as an air traffic controller at New York Center (ZNY) for about a year […]