Aviation Week’s Irene Klotz reported on 14 September that the FAA updated the next Starship-Super Heavy flight test from Boca Chica Beach, Texas, to 22 September, with airspace cleared for a launch attempt between 7:15 and 9:14 a.m. EDT on Aviation Week’s stated clock, and that the FAA’s Current Operations Plan Advisory includes a Starship backup launch opportunity during the same timeframe on 23 September. The Aviation Week URL opened for this edition returned only a short teaser under the fetch — soft FLAG paywall/partial — so the load-bearing schedule confirmation is the live FAA advisory text the desk opened separately.
The desk opened the FAA Air Traffic Control System Command Center operations-plan advisory (fly.faa.gov adv/adv_spt) on 15 September. Under the planned launch/reentry block, the advisory lists a dedicated Starship line:
SPACEX STARSHIP FLT-14, STARBASE, TX
PRIMARY: 09/22/26 1215Z–1414Z
BACKUP: 09/23/26 1215Z–1414Z
Those Coordinated Universal Time figures are the authoritative planning signal used on this page. They preserve the same two-hour block length that earlier advisories used when the primary date was 18 September and the backup was 19 September at 12:15–14:14 UTC. Converting 1215Z–1414Z produces 7:15–9:14 a.m. in U.S. Eastern Daylight Time — the numerals Aviation Week printed — while Starbase, Texas, observes Central time on the civil calendar. Soft FLAG the timezone label (EDT vs CDT); do not soft-FLAG the FAA Zulu window itself.
How the advisory works, in plain terms: the Current Operations Plan Advisory is an air-traffic planning product. It tells the national airspace system when to expect launch and reentry activity so routes and flow programs can be shaped around a possible attempt. It can appear before an operator posts a public webcast page. It does not replace a company go/no-go decision, and it does not by itself prove every license condition has been satisfied. That distinction is the soft gate for this story: FAA planning ≠ SpaceX confirmation; license and range readiness remain gates unless sources say otherwise.
This filing is deliberately distinct from yesterday’s Good Times piece on the September 18 advisory. Yesterday’s news was that an 18/19 September window existed in the planning system. Today’s news is the shift: the same FLT-14 line now points at 22 September primary and 23 September backup. Readers comparing the two editions should treat them as sequential advisory snapshots, not as duplicate leads.
Adjacent lines on the same 15 September advisory page list other SpaceX activity from Vandenberg (including a TH-1 window and a Starlink mission window later in the week). Those entries are neighbouring airspace colour only; they are not Starship Flight 14 and are not used to infer Starbase readiness. Aviation Week’s short item places the Boca Chica test in sequence as Starship’s 14th flight test and notes Falcon 9’s 700th mission as adjacent program colour. The desk does not call Flight 14 the first Vehicle 3 flight. Prior public reporting already recorded that Flight 13 flew V3 hardware; inventing booster or ship numbers from an unopened company page would break the cite-only rule, so hardware IDs stay off this page unless an opened source prints them.
The practical reader takeaway is the calendar change alone: if you were watching Friday 18 September on the prior advisory, the planning system has moved the primary hold to Monday 22 September, with Tuesday 23 September retained as backup at the identical Zulu hours. No opened source on this pass printed a SpaceX confirmation matching those dates; until one does, the advisory remains planning, not countdown.
What to watch next is mechanical and dated. Watch whether subsequent COP advisories keep 22/23 September or move again. Watch for a SpaceX confirmation post that states objectives, a civil-clock window, and webcast timing. Watch for license or range notices that would scrub or slip the airspace block. Until those arrive, the checkable fact is the FAA line: FLT-14 planned for 22 September 1215Z–1414Z, with 23 September held at the same hours.
Floor: FAA COP advisory — Starship FLT-14 primary 22 Sep 1215Z–1414Z; backup 23 Sep same hours (was 18/19). Planning ≠ SpaceX confirm.