The Civil Aviation Authority of Colombia is a semi independent agency of the Colombian Ministry of Transport. Aerocivil deals not only with civil aviation, but with
general aviation as a whole, excluding
military aviation which falls under the
Colombian Air Force branch of the
Military Forces of Colombia. The agency also operates two agencies of its own, the Corporation of the Colombian Aeronautic Industry SA (
Corporación de la Industria Aeronáutica Colombiana S.A, or CIAC) which is in agency in charge of construction, repair and maintenance of planes and jets, and the Centre for Aeronautic Studies (
Centro de Estudios Aeronáuticos, or CEA), which creates programs for training and education in the field of aeronautics.
Mission The mission of Aerocivil is to work towards the organized development of civil aviation, the aviation industry, and the safe use of the Colombian airspace, facilitating intermodal transportation, through: • The regulation of the use of the Colombian airspace and its airport and aeronautic infrastructure. • The administration of the use of Colombian airspace by means of civil aviation, the airport and aeronautic infrastructure, and the coordination of its relations with that of the military. • The lending of airport services and support to aviation. • The exercise of control and observance of operational safety in the air-space sector. • Implement the principles of quality and social responsibility; focusing its management in the continuous improvement of human talent, the processes and financial viability of the institution, as a strategy for organizational competitiveness.
Objectives The objectives of Aerocivil as a government agency are: • To foment and regulate the development, coverage, and growth of civil aviation, and industry and research into aeronautics, to guarantee national and international geographical connectivity and to contribute to the growth of the economy and Colombian quality of life. • To guarantee operational safety by means of planning, design, implementation, regulation, and control of the development of civil aviation, guaranteeing the observance of national and international standards and the improvement of the use and conditions of the environment. • To guarantee the availability and effectiveness of the interactions of customers and the community and the review of their suggestions, needs and requirement. • To adopt the best practices of management, direction, and control in the compliance methods to fulfill the requirements set by Law, and international standards, that allow the satisfaction of the clients and users, as well as the development and well-being of our employees. • To guarantee financial sustainability. • to foment and optimize the mechanisms of investment, commercialization, and exploitation based in private participation and economic sustainability, in the lending of services of public and commercial airport administration, in accordance with the national and international standards of civil aviation. • To determine the policies of development and regulation pertaining to the aeronautical sector. • To guarantee the availability of airport infrastructure for the development of commercial activity. • To select, adopt and maintain the technology applicable to the offering of services associated with the Agency. • To guarantee the effective Administration of Human Talent, the development of competitiveness and the strengthening of the processes of formation, training, and investigation. ==History==