| 16.01.1996 | Government regulation Nr 29-k on establishing a government commission for co-ordinating the development of Estonian integrated radar surveillance system |
| 23.01.1996 | Meeting in Tallinn of representatives from Latvia, Lithuania, Danish and Estonia on co-ordination of establishing a common airspace control system in the Baltic States |
| 14 - 15.02.1996 | RAI meeting in Tallinn (Estonian subproject) |
| 28.02.1996 | Government regulation Nr.193-k on establishing an independent state agency of air navigation services from April 1 |
| 07.03.1996 | Negotiations in Pärnu regional administration (in presence of ECAA and NAR) on the development of Pärnu airport |
| 11 - 15.03.1996 | Seminar in Vilnius on reorganisation of aviation state structures (Lithuania, Sweden, Germany, Finland and Estonia) |
| 01.04.1996 | Estonian Air Navigation Services launched own activities as an independent budgetary state agency under Ministry of Transport and Communications |
| 22 - 24.04.1996 | Participation in co-ordination meeting on route network improvement (Danish, Norway, Sweden, Finland) |
| 13 - 18.05.1996 | Participation in Golden Flight Level in Riksgränsen, Sweden |
| 22 - 24.05.1996 | ECAC flight safety symposium in London |
| 05.06.1996 | Signing of Memorandum of Understanding between Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Transport and Communications on civil – military co-operation |
| 06.06.1996 | First meeting of the surveillance system commission (Ministry of Defence) |
| 20.06.1996 | Conference on aviation meteorology for the representatives of Ministries of Environment, Transport and Defence |
| 21.06.1996 | Opening Ceremony of the new ATS Centre .1996 |
| 10.07.1996 | Introduction of Võhma VOR/DME |
| 12.07.1996 | 16 commercial pilots finished Aviation Class in Tartu Aviation College |
| 20.07.1996 | Airforce Day in Television Tower |
| 26.07.1996 | 14 air traffic controllers finished Aviation Class in Tartu Aviation College |
| 01.09.1996 | Opening of the Department of aviation engineers in Tartu Aviation College |
| 02 - 03.09.1996 | Delegation of Dutch Ministry of Transport visited Estonia |
| 09 - 13.09.1996 | RAI conference in Bled, Slovenia (the Baltic States and Estonia) |
| 16.09.1996 | NDB in Võhma was fully replaced by VOR/DME |
| 08 - 10.10.1996 | Signing of VCS Agreement in Zurich with Rohde&Schwarz/Schmid Telecom |
| 14.10.1996 | Sofreavia visit to establish co-operation on the AIS system development (financed by PHARE Programme) |
| 17 - 18.10.1996 | "Aviation Education 96" Conference in Tartu College |
| 22.10.1996 | Meeting with the delegation of European Commission on the integration matters of Estonian aviation structures into Europe |
| 24 - 25.10.1996 | Seminar for aviation top managers in Pühajärve |
| 04.11.1996 | Co-ordination meeting in Ministry of Finance on financed by SIDA co-operation in the aviation sector between Estonia and Sweden |
| 05.11.1996 | Meeting with ACI Europe representatives in Tallinn |
| 11 - 13.11.1996 | Meeting with Airforce and Swedavia representatives, starting civil-military co-operation (ATMAS project) on developing basic documents |
| 20.11.1996 | Norwegian and Estonian Prime Ministers visited the new ATS Centre |
| 09.12.1996 | Signing of Agreement on Technical Co-operation with EUROCONTROL |
| 09 - 11.12.1996 | Conference in Paris on Delineation of FIR boundaries between the Baltic States |
| 12.12.1996 | Start of developing initial technical specifications for Estonian airspace surveillance system |
| 27.12.1996 | Conference in Ministry of Transport and Communications on the continuation of civil-military co-operation |