Civil Aviation Authority

Te Mana Rererangi Tūmatanui o Aotearoa
Agency overview
Formed	1992[1]
Jurisdiction	New Zealand government
Headquarters	Wellington
Employees	171.1 FTE (2007)[2]
Annual budget	$26.9 million (2007)[2]
Minister responsible	Simeon Brown, Minister of Transport
Agency executives	Janice Frederic, Chair 2020 Keith Manch, Director of Civil Aviation
Parent agency	Ministry of Transport
Child agency	Aviation Security Service
Website	www.aviation.govt.nz

The Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand (CAA) (Māori: Te Mana Rererangi Tūmatanui o Aotearoa) is the government agency tasked with establishing civil aviation safety and security standards in New Zealand. The CAA also monitors adherence to those standards and is responsible for enforcement proceedings. The authority "investigates and reviews accident and incident investigations in its capacity as the responsible safety and security authority, subject to the limitations set out in section 14(3) of the Transport Accident Investigation Commission Act 1990"^[3] (TAIC). CAA is also responsible for managing civilian pilot, aerodrome and aircraft licensing in New Zealand. The CAA has its headquarters in the Asteron Centre in Featherston Street, Wellington.^[4]

Ministers of Civil Aviation

Before a Civil Aviation portfolio was created in 1946, ministerial authority had rested with the Minister of Defence.^[5] The position of Minister for Civil Aviation was abolished just before the 1990 election where after aviation remained under the Minister of Transport. However the government formed the Civil Aviation Authority in 1992 to regulate aviation separately from the Ministry of Transport. It was reinstated as a full ministerial portfolio in 1999.^[6]

The following ministers have held ministerial responsibility for Civil Aviation.^[7]

Key

  Labour   National   Greens

No.		Name	Portrait	Term of Office		Prime Minister
	1	Fred Jones		1 June 1946	13 December 1949		Fraser
	2	Stan Goosman		13 December 1949	8 December 1950		Holland
	3	Tom Macdonald		8 December 1950	26 November 1954
	4	Tom Shand		26 November 1954	12 December 1957
							Holyoake
	5	John Mathison		12 December 1957	12 December 1960		Nash
	6	John McAlpine		12 December 1960	12 December 1966		Holyoake
	7	Peter Gordon		12 December 1966	8 December 1972
							Marshall
	8	Martyn Finlay		8 December 1972	12 December 1975		Kirk
							Rowling
	9	Colin McLachlan		12 December 1975	11 December 1981		Muldoon
	10	George Gair		11 December 1981	26 July 1984
	11	Richard Prebble		26 July 1984	24 August 1987		Lange
	12	Bill Jeffries		24 August 1987	2 November 1990
							Palmer
							Moore
	13	Rob Storey		2 November 1990	29 November 1993		Bolger
	14	Maurice Williamson		29 November 1993	16 December 1996
	15	Jenny Shipley		16 December 1996	8 December 1997
	(14)	Maurice Williamson		8 December 1997	10 December 1999		Shipley
	16	Mark Gosche		10 December 1999	27 July 2002		Clark
	17	Paul Swain		27 July 2002	26 February 2004
	18	Pete Hodgson		26 February 2004	19 October 2005
	19	David Parker		19 October 2005	21 March 2006
	20	Annette King		21 March 2006	19 November 2008
	21	Steven Joyce		19 November 2008	12 December 2011		Key
	22	Gerry Brownlee		12 December 2011	6 October 2014
	23	Simon Bridges		6 October 2014	26 October 2017
							English
	24	Phil Twyford		26 October 2017	24 May 2018		Ardern
	25	Julie Anne Genter		24 May 2018	6 November 2020
	26	Michael Wood		6 November 2020	21 June 2023
							Hipkins
	27	Simeon Brown		27 November 2023	Present		Luxon