The exercise of control and observance of operational safety in the air-space sector. Implement the principles of quality and social responsibility; focusing its management in the continuous improvement of human talent, the processes and financial viability of the institution, as a strategy for organizational competitiveness. Objectives The objectives of Aerocivil as a government agency are: To foment and regulate the development, coverage, and growth of civil aviation, and industry and research into aeronautics, to guarantee national and international geographical connectivity and to contribute to the growth of the economy and Colombian quality of life. To guarantee operational safety by means of planning, design, implementation, regulation, and control of the development of civil aviation, guaranteeing the observance of national and international standards and the improvement of the use and conditions of the environment. To guarantee the availability and effectiveness of the interactions of customers and the community and the review of their suggestions, needs and requirement. To adopt the best practices of management, direction, and control in the compliance methods to fulfill the requirements set by Law, and international standards, that allow the satisfaction of the clients and users, as well as the development and well-being of our employees. To guarantee financial sustainability. to foment and optimize the mechanisms of investment, commercialization, and exploitation based in private participation and economic sustainability, in the lending of services of public and commercial airport administration, in accordance with the national and international standards of civil aviation. To determine the policies of development and regulation pertaining to the aeronautical sector. To guarantee the availability of airport infrastructure for the development of commercial activity. To select, adopt and maintain the technology applicable to the offering of services associated with the Agency. To guarantee the effective Administration of Human Talent, the development of competitiveness and the strengthening of the processes of formation, training, and investigation. History During the early 1900s the growth of civil aviation and commercial airlines created the need for their regulation and oversight. In 1919 with the creation of the first Colombian airline, SCADTA, the need for regulation led the government to take the first of such steps. On 31 December 1919, President Marco Fidel Suárez sanctioned Law 126 of 1919, which became the first form of legislation in the country dealing with aviation, making aviation companies, and everything related to aviation subject to government regulations. On 2 November 1933 during the administration of