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to make evident the essentially international spirit of aeronautics as a powerful instrument for
bringing all people closer in mutual understanding and friendship regardless of political, racial or
religious considerations, thereby helping to create international good will and thus build a better and
more peaceful world;
to bring together the air sports men and women of the world in international competition;
to educate young people through sport in a spirit of mutual understanding and friendship;
to coordinate its Members' separate efforts to further aeronautics and astronautics throughout the
world;
to protect and safeguard the interests of its Members in the use of air space;
to provide a forum for the exchange of information and discussion of mutual problems with other
elements of civil aeronautics.
To fulfill these objectives and meet the needs of each air sport and area of activity, the organisational structure
of FAI continues to evolve. From time to time, new Commissions are created.
At present, the FAI comprises these elements:
The General Conference, the supreme policy-making body, which adopts Statutes and By-laws the foundation stones of the FAI;
The Executive Board, principal executive body of FAI, responsible for implementing the decisions of
General Conference and directing the day-to-day operation of the FAI;
Eleven Air Sport Commissions representing, in addition to the General Commission, all 10 air sport
disciplines under FAI control: ballooning, general aviation, gliding, rotorcraft, parachuting,
aeromodelling, aerobatics, astronautics records, hang-gliding and microlights;
Four Technical Commissions which control non-sporting activities: aerospace education, amateurbuilt aircraft; medico-physiological and environmental matters.