On July 26, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it had issued more than 100,000 remote pilot certificates. Yet limitations on drone operations imposed by the FAA have led to both litigation and “work-arounds” by industry. The remote pilot certification requirement for drone …
Read More »The Wicks Group (TWG) Partner and Vice President Roncevert Almond, Senior Advisor Cornelia Wilson-Hunter, and Attorney Andrew Orr recently published an article in Aviation & Allied Business Journal, a journal on the development of aviation in Africa. Their work was featured in the August/Septem…
Read More »In a notice published on July 6, 2018, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) outlined a way for U.S. stakeholders to get products excluded from the recent imposition of an additional ad valorem duty of 25 percent on Chinese products imported under 818 tariff lines, covering a trade val…
Read More »Last week, Glenn Wicks, Kathryn Wicks, Ekaterina Grimes, and Mihaela Cebotari represented The Wicks Group at a reception hosted by the embassy of Azerbaijan in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The event—which brought together senior government offi…
Read More »On May 16, 2018, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) informed Azerbaijan’s State Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA) that Azerbaijan has achieved compliance with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) safety oversight standards and would retain its Ca…
Read More »This past week, The Wicks Group’s Managing Director and Founder Glenn Wicks, along with Senior Advisor Loretta McNeir, participated in the sixth biennial U.S. – India Aviation Summit in Mumbai, India. Convened by the United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) in partnership with the U.S. – …
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