About This Archive
This is an unofficial, historical archive of the former FAA Fire Safety website
(fire.tc.faa.gov) — the online home of the Fire Safety Branch at the FAA William J.
Hughes Technical Center. The original site went offline and was not restored. This archive is a
snapshot as captured through October 2025, rebuilt from pages and files preserved by the
Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Federal Aviation Administration, and its content is
no longer being updated.
Why this exists
For decades, the Fire Safety site was where the aviation community went for fire test methods, the Aircraft Materials Fire Test Handbook, working-group meeting presentations, training videos, and over a thousand technical reports — material that labs, manufacturers, designated engineering representatives, and researchers rely on in day-to-day certification work. When the site disappeared, that access disappeared with it. This archive is a temporary bridge: a place to keep those essential presentations, reports, and files reachable until official channels fully restore them.
Who built it
This archive was built and is hosted by Aeroblaze Laboratory, an independent test laboratory specializing in aerospace materials testing and certification. Aeroblaze depends on — and believes in open access to — this body of public fire-safety research, and maintains this archive as a service to the community that uses it.
What’s here, and what isn’t
- All major sections of the original site: working-group pages, ~68 meeting archives, nine international conference sites (1998–2022), the Fire Test Handbook, and a searchable Reports & Presentations Index built from the original report database.
- Documents are preserved exactly as published, including original FAA authorship and attribution.
- Some content was never captured before the site went offline and could not be recovered; links to missing items fall back to a Wayback Machine lookup. Pages behind the old meeting-registration login were never publicly archived.
Official sources
For current, authoritative material, use the FAA’s Dynamic Regulatory System (DRS) and the National Transportation Library (ROSA-P). Works of the U.S. Government are in the public domain (17 U.S.C. § 105).
Problems or corrections
Found a broken link, a missing document you can source, or an error? Open an issue on the project’s GitHub repository.