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.
FAA, expanding its decade-old aging aircraft program, published an ``interim file rule'' mandating age-related inspections and records reviews for multi-engine Part 121, 129 and 135 aircraft. The rule, slated to go into effect in December 2003, would cover most aircraft that have been in service for at least 14 years. Alaska-based aircraft are exempt. The goal of the inspections and records reviews is to ``ensure that the maintenance of these airplanes' age-sensitive parts and components has been adequate and timely,'' FAA said in the interim rule published Dec.
FAA's proposed timeline for implementing reduced vertical separation minimum (RVSM) standards in U.S. domestic airspace will put tremendous pressure on non-airline operators to get their equipment certified or face significant operational penalties come December 2004. That's according to several organizations that filed comments on FAA's proposed domestic RVSM (DRVSM) rule published earlier this year.
FAA proposed a two-step program for getting more crash-resistant seats into airplane cabins that, once finalized, would see current-standard ``16g'' seats throughout the U.S. fleet within 14 years.
