Sean Broderick covers aviation safety, MRO, and the hardware side of the airline business from Aviation Week Network's Washington, D.C. office.
Broderick's aviation career started in 1991, working for Airbus in Toulouse. His industry experience includes four years with an aviation consultancy, where he helped launch a U.S. Part 121 carrier; 12 years with the American Association of Airport Executives, where he served as editor of Airport Magazine; and 20 years in full- and part-time roles with Aviation Week writing primarily about safety and the aftermarket.
Broderick was named the 2020 Aerospace Journalist of the Year by the Aerospace Media Awards. He also shared in a 2020 Neal Award for Best News Coverage with Aviation Week Network colleagues. Broderick and Aviation Week colleague John Croft shared the 2015 Flight Safety International Cecil A. Brownlow Publication Award recognizing "significant contributions by journalists to aviation safety awareness."
He graduated from James Madison University with a B.S. in Communications ('91) and earned an M.S. in Integrated Marketing Communications ('13) from West Virginia University.
An industry working group representing 11 aviation organizations and a cross-section of the maintenance community has sent FAA proposed new policy guidance on how Instructions for Continued Airworthiness (ICA) distribution should be handled. The guidance, forwarded to FAA in late August, ``is consistent with existing FAA policy in many respects,'' the group said in a cover letter sent along with the filing. ``However, it is significantly different in its treatment of components and other articles that have their own FAA design approvals.''
The Federal Aviation Administration's con-clusion that its new drug and alcohol testing regulation doesn't significantly impact a large number of small businesses isn't backed by sufficient data, the Small Business Administration's (SBA) Office of Advocacy has concluded. A near-term ramification could be that FAA may need to solicit input from the public on the rule's small-business impact, unless the supporting data can be gleaned from the existing public comments filed on the overall draft rule, the Office of Advocacy said.
Operators of certain Honeywell T53-powered helicopters are incredulous over an FAA proposal to mandate manufacturer-recommended life reductions on certain critical components, claiming that in-service data doesn't exist to support the costly endeavor.
