Liberia
A little known Bureau of Civil Aviation witness a departmental shift from the Ministry of Commerce Industry & Transportation and later the decoupled Ministry of Transport until 2005 after the legislative determination, which created the independent Liberia Civil Aviation Authority.
The mandate of the Liberia Civil Aviation Authority is to provide for the regulation and promotion of civil aviation in Liberia, to foster its safe and orderly development, and for other purposes incidental thereof.
A dramatic gap can be recorded judging by an evolution from the Bureau of Civil Aviation to the Liberia CAA, which has become a household word. This is all not about fame based on the pursuit of stardom. With the appointment of a new Director General, professionalism and the upholding ethical standards became the focus on the drawing board.
It took only and enduring, dedicated assertive small team tucked into an aura, which saw more than 50 hrs work sheet eagerly invested to begin to get the results trickling. While there is no reason for complacency regarding achievement, so much transformation has taken place and the system is working.
We have marched with valor unpretending to diligently unmask Liberia as a country that was blacklisted by the United Nations and EU. A backlog of unsettled arrears to International Aviation fraternities that curtailed Liberia’s voting rights is being restituted. LCAA exists with virtually no assistance from the government except the political will to see us achieve the level of standards required by International Governing body, ICAO.
LCAA’s relentless efforts in living by example about how an effective system must work, has today brought to bear an efficiently policed sector. Travel Agencies have come to align with our regulations let alone the Airlines. LCAA sets the standards and they follow. Those once grimaced faces have all fizzled out. Liberia is back and is emerging on the trajectory of the dawn of a new day. We are off the EU’s blacklist, in the good books of the ICAO, treading in alliance along the path of the African Civil Aviation Commission (AFCAC) and remain a vibrant member of the Banjul Accord Group (BAG). We are proud our intervening unrelenting vigor propelled the return.
We are acutely aware of the huge challenges that confront us. Training remains a priority and LCAA is doing everything humanly possible to prioritize the training of its personnel to meeting increasing demands.
Commissioner- AAIB
Capt. Moses K Weefur (Rtd)
Is a graduate with an Airline Transport Pilot License from the Anderson School of Aviation, Phoenix, Arizona; USA, the College of West Africa, and studied Mathematics and Physics at the University of Liberia.
After completing several responsibilities as a trained commercial Airline pilot and fifteen years of flying career in Nigeria, in 2009, he returned home to join the Liberia Civil Aviation Authority. Following the amendment of the 2005 LCAA Act in 2019, he was appointed as the Deputy Director General for Technical Services by H.E. Dr. George Manneh Weah, President of Liberia. Before this, he diligently served as Assistant Manager, Flight Operations at Liberia Civil Aviation Authority.
Captain Weefur between 1970 to the present has acquired a vast amount of Aviation experience which includes amongst others, the Ministry of State for Presidential Affairs during President Tolberts’s Administration as well as, the Director for Flight Operations and Training, Freedom Air, Kaduna. Chief Pilot, Triax Airline of Nigeria. Others are, Members of the Liberia Delegation to ICAO Bilateral Air Service Agreement Meeting, Nassau Bahamas, and ICAO General Assembly meeting in Montreal Canada, Civil Aviation Safety Inspector Training, RABAT, Morocco, Member, Board of Director, Liberia Airport Authority Representing LCAA.
He also served as head of Delegation to the Technical Committee for RFIR, Freetown, Sierra Leone, ICAO/USA FAA Government Safety Inspector (GSI – OPS) Operations, ICAO/USA FAA Government Safety Inspector (GSI – PEL) Personnel Licensing, ICAO/USA NTSB Aircraft Accident Investigator and Head of Delegation to African Civil Aviation Commission (AFCAC) Plenary in Dakar, Senegal. Head of Delegation to SAATM meetings in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Lome, Togo.
As a pilot, between 1971 and 2005, he piloted several aircraft as a Student Pilot, Lieutenant Pilot, Liberia National Police, First Officer and subsequently, Captain. Some of the aircraft he piloted include but were not limited to; CESSNA180, BN-2A/3 Islander/Trisland, Beechcraft BE-200, CESSNA 402B, CESSNA 337, CASA-212-200, ARAVA 101-B, Fokker FH 227, Hawker Siddiley, HS748, Air Liberia (1979-1980). Boeing 727(Freedom Air), Boeing 727(Traix Airlines), Boeing 727(Dodson Aviation, Ottawa, Kanasas, USA). Boeing 737 VVIP(former Presidents Tolbert and Doe). Others are Boeing 727 VVIP (former President Doe). Dassault Falcon DA-20 VVIP (former President Doe) and Boeing 707-300 VVIP (former President Doe) are others. He is currently serving as Presidential Pilot/Safety Pilot for President George M. Weah in addition to his responsibilities at the LCAA as Deputy Director-General for Technical Service