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Chapter 2 About Civil Aviation Department
Key Responsibilities
Being the civil aviation authority in Hong Kong, CAD is committed to a safe and efficient air transport system. We strive to accomplish the following missions in a professional manner: -
- Positioning Hong Kong as a leading centre of aviation
- Maintaining safe, orderly and expeditious flow of air traffic
- Providing flight information service and alerting service within the Hong Kong Flight Information Region
- Coordinating search and rescue operation in the event of aircraft emergencies and accidents
- Setting and enforcing aerodrome safety and aviation security standards
- Ensuring compliance of established airworthiness and flight operations standards by Hong Kong registered aircraft and locally based airlines
- Ensuring Hong Kong approved aircraft maintenance organisations comply with international standards
- Ensuring Hong Kong licensed flight crew and aircraft maintenance engineer meet international standards
- Monitoring compliance by airlines with bi-lateral Air Services Agreements
- Developing workable measures to minimise the impact of aircraft noise on local communities
Organization Chart
Organization Chart as at 1 January, 2005#
Note :
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There is no major change in organizational context (e.g. organization size, and activities) since last report.
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The Accident Investigation Division is mobilised only when required by drawing specially trained staff from other Divisions. |
Number of staff
CAD had a total of 661 staff and 7 divisions as at 1 January 2005 (Figure 1).
Our Location
CAD had 5 office locations (Figure 2). We also had a number of radar stations, radio navigational aids and communication stations.
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