FAA's First Flight Service Network HUB Operational

The FAA's first of three flight service network hubs is now operational at Washington, D.C.  The others will be in Prescott, Arizona, and Dallas.

The FS21 (flight services for the 21st Century) hubs are automated flight service stations, built by Lockheed Martin, designed to streamline the flow of information to and from pilots by allowing all flight service stations to share the same set of nationwide data.

The facilities are staffed with specialists that provide traditional flight-service-station services such as weather briefings, in-flight information, flight plan filing, clearances, and other services to pilots, as was done before.

As the Washington hub, which is located near the Dulles airport, came online, one of the FAA's "heritage" sites, the Anniston Flight Service Station, in Oxford, Alabama, ceased operations, and had it calls redirected to the new FS21.  Additional flight service stations will have their calls transferred to the new hubs as the transition continues.  02-26-2007.

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