Huck
March 15, 1960.
But all the major airlines already had company-imposed age limits of 60. The FAA just codified them into regulation.
I certainly understand your resentment. But understand that EVERY step in your career - the day you were hired, the day you upgraded, the day you went to the widebodies - happened five years earlier for you because of the old law.
Three ALPA represented airlines imposed the age 60 retirement. Prior to that there was no retirement age mandated. ALPA took the issue to arbitration, and Won! C.R. Smith, CEO of American took his problem to Gen. Pete Quesada ret., the first Administator to the new FAA. General Quesada fixed his problem. Gen. Quesada was rewarded with a position of the Board of American after he left the FAA.