Phoenix Sky Harbor Air Traffic Control Tower

10/20/2013

Happy International Day of the Air Traffic Controller!

05/05/2013

The Solar Impulse visiting Sky Harbor

04/19/2013

WASHINGTON — Air traffic controller furloughs scheduled to kick in on Sunday could result in flight delays of more than three hours in Atlanta, as well as significant delays in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York-area airports, federal officials said Thursday.

05/28/2012

Phoenix Sky Harbor, other airports get safety upgrades, Runways at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and other airports nationwide are becoming safer due to recent upgrades.

12/08/2011

Bringing you home for the holidays!

Air traffic controllers guide you home safely; 50,000 flights each day and 750 million passengers each year. Aviation is the safest form of travel.

06/17/2011

Watching planes takeoff and land from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport as seen from top of Hayden Butte. Captured with a Canon 50D set at ISO 100 and Tv=5seconds. ...

05/13/2011

04/25/2011

Air traffic controllers have been painted in a series of recent media reports as dozing, sleepy-eyed slackers. But they are also obsessed with safety — and are rapid-talking, snap-thinking, proud perfectionists.

04/06/2010

Typical Airport Surveillance Radar 9 (ASR-9) radar antenna, similar to the one at PHX. The antenna allows a display of aircraft up to 60 nautical miles away.