The organization has been responsible for licensing, monitoring, and regulating civil aviation matters.
The SSCAA was formed and officially recognized by the International Civil Aviation Organization as its 193rd Member.
[1] President Salva Kiir officially signed the decree for the establishment of the countries first civil aviation authority to regulate the industry on February 26, 2013.
[3] On May 24, 2021, the SSCAA announced to ground all privately owned Antonov An-26 being flown in South Sudan after a series of incidents involving those planes.
[4][5] In July 2021, NavPass an aviation solutions provider and the SSCAA was able to launch a lower airspace using the global-standard Performance-based navigation (PBN) system that uses an AI-powered platform to record all flights in real time while automatically collecting overflight fees.