National Aviation Authority (Arab Union)

The National Aviation Authority (NAA; Arabic: سلطة الطيران الوطنية sulṭat aṭ-ṭayarān al-waṭanīyah) is an agency of the federal government of the Arab Union, subordinate to the Ministry of Transportation.

The NAA's two primary responsibilities are 1) regulating air traffic and the civilian aviation industry by developing and enforcing safety policy, standardising aviation professions by accrediting flight schools and other training programs and licencing businesses in the aviation industry, and investigating all accidents, from minor systems failures to mass-casualty crashes; and 2) operating and maintaining all civilian airports in the Arab Union, both domestic and international, as well as all related air transport infrastructure and technologies, such as air traffic control and navigation systems, weather stations providing realtime data, and airspace and geographical radios and beacons.

The NAA is headquartered in Beirut, Lebanon, and has a major office at the Ministry of Transportation headquarters in Ibrahimia; the NAA also operates field offices or supervisory projects attached to the various facilities and programs for which it is responsible; for example, all airports have a dedicated administrative office staffed by NAA civil servants, responsible for supervising airport operations. The NAA employs around 11,000 personnel; this figure does not include airport staff, who are hired as employees of the municipality in which the airport is located and therefore not considered employees of the NAA. All funding for airports, however, is provided by the NAA.

Bassel Abu Abbas has served as Chairman of the National Aviation Authority since September 2019.