Chet Kisling papers, 1978-1996.

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Chet Kisling papers, 1978-1996.

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Printed material, primarily clippings, as well as correspondence, notes, and legal documents, make up the papers of air traffic controller Chet Kisling. The papers document the period of the PATCO strike as well as Kisling's pursuit of employment as an air traffic controller over the following years. The bulk of the papers consist of a collection of newspaper clippings.

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Georgia State University

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United States. Merit Systems Protection Board

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Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (Washington, D.C.)

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The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) was organized in 1968 to represent the interests of air traffic controllers. The organization dissolved amid the controversial air traffic controllers strike in 1981. From the description of Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization records, 1968-1982. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38477565 ...

PATCO Lives (Organization)

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United States. Federal Aviation Administration. Southern Region

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Kisling, Chet, 1943-

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Chet Kisling (born 1943) worked as an air traffic contoller at the Atlanta Air Route Traffic Control Center in Hampton, Georgia from 1968, reaching the rank of Air Traffic Control Specialist. A member of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO), he was one of the 11,400 U.S. controllers fired after PATCO's 1981 strike. Kisling participated with six colleagues as an appellant in a U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board hearing in 1982 (Tommy Barbee, et al. v. Federal Aviation Ad...