WASHINGTON, July 17 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump

is nominating former Delta Air Lines pilot Jeffrey

Anderson to serve as U.S ambassador to the International Civil

Aviation Organization, the White House said on Thursday.

The nomination comes as some U.S. senators want the Trump

administration to advocate at ICAO for raising the mandatory

retirement age for airline pilots from 65 to 67.

The United States has not had a permanent ambassador at the

Montreal-based United Nations civil aviation body since July

2022 when C.B. "Sully" Sullenberger, the commercial pilot who

safely landed an Airbus A320 on New York's Hudson River in 2009

after hitting a flock of geese, stepped down.