Hogan Lovells US LLP

Transportation

Senior Counsel

With deep roots in the Washington, D.C. aviation community, Ted Ellett provides clients with studied insight into the thinking and inner workings of the critical federal aviation agencies. Ted has been advising clients for decades on their most complex Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulatory and policy issues.

A former FAA chief counsel and special counsel to the administrator, Ted co-founded the firm's Aviation Group. He also is a member of the firm's Global Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) (drones) practice, which he also co-founded. He uses his background from senior-level positions at the FAA and decades of client problem-solving at all levels of the FAA to resolve clients' critical FAA challenges.

Ted has been an industry leader in crafting regulatory constructs for innovative aviation business concepts, operations, and technologies. Aviation innovations as diverse as aircraft fractional ownership, airport privatization, commercial zero-gravity flight operations, civil supersonic airplanes, and UAS all have benefitted from Ted's creative, business-focused legal counsel.

English

Member and Former Chair, UAS Subcommittee of the National Business Aviation Association Regulatory Issues Advisory Group

Former Chair, Federal Bar Association's Transportation Law Section and The Virginia Bar Association's Transportation Law Section

Former General Counsel, Airport Consultants Council

Former Member, Aviation Advisory Board, University of Southern California

Former Member, Board of Governors, Aero Club of Washington

Founding Member, National Transportation Safety Board Bar Association

Member, American Bar Association

Member, American Counsel Association

Member, Bar Association of the District of Columbia

Member, Federal Bar Association

Member, International Aviation Club

Member, International Bar Association

Member, International Society of Air Safety Investigators

Member, Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association

Past President, Aero Club of Washington

Past President, The Virginia Bar Association

J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 1977

B.A., Davidson College, 1974