International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)

Definitions

• The United Nations agency for developing the principles and techniques of international air navigation, and fostering planning and development of international civil air transport.
• An international body that sets aviation safety standards. Member states agree to formulate regulation to meet those standards.
• An agency of the United Nations, which has codified principles and techniques of international air navigation and fostered the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth. ICAO has produced many international treaties to standardize aviation; the United States is a member of the ICAO, and as such, has agreed to many of the standardization efforts, most notably in the area of airspace
  nomenclature.
• ICAO is a specialized agency of the United Nations whose objective is to develop standard principles and techniques of international air navigation and to promote development of civil aviation.

References

• Balloon Flying Handbook, Federal Aviation Administration, 2024
• Instrument Flying Handbook, Federal Aviation Administration, 2014
• Instrument Procedures Handbook, Federal Aviation Administration, 2017
• Risk Management Handbook, Federal Aviation Administration, 2022
• Weight-Shift Control Aircraft Flying Handbook, Federal Aviation Administration, 2008