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The bill aims to speed and standardize aircraft certification through clearer timelines, public reporting, and use of consensus standards—reducing industry uncertainty and boosting innovation—while trading off increased FAA workload, potential transitional costs, reduced legal recourse, and risks that pressure to meet deadlines could compromise safety or favor larger industry players.
Manufacturers, applicants, and operators get clearer, more predictable certification timelines, public reporting, and stable means-of-compliance, reducing uncertainty and generally speeding approvals and planning.
Public reporting, metrics, and posted delegation guidance increase FAA transparency and accountability, making it easier for Congress, industry, and the public to track performance and corrective actions.
Broader adoption of industry consensus standards and converting stable issue papers into advisory circulars provides accepted compliance paths and reduces repetitive review work, which can shorten certification timelines.
Communities, passengers, and transportation workers face heightened safety risk if fixed timelines and pressures to meet them cause rushed or incomplete safety assessments, especially for novel or complex systems.
Taxpayers, applicants, and FAA staff may bear higher administrative costs and workloads as the FAA implements new processes, reporting, revised orders, and centralized reviews, potentially diverting resources from certification work.
Limiting judicial challenges to missed timelines reduces stakeholders' legal recourse and external checks on the Administrator, weakening accountability for delays or poor implementation.
Based on analysis of 12 sections of legislative text.
Requires the FAA to publish plans, timelines, criteria, and delegation guidance to improve transparency and speed of aircraft type certification and support advanced air mobility.
Requires the FAA to publish a public plan, specific timelines, clear criteria, and updated delegation guidance to make aircraft type certification and supplemental type certification more transparent, predictable, and timely—including steps to convert recurring issue papers into stable policy and to support new aviation technologies like advanced air mobility. Sets short statutory deadlines (90–270 days) for the FAA to update internal orders and post guidance, requires stakeholder consultation and periodic Congress-facing reporting, and clarifies that the timelines do not create new legal rights or judicial review of missed timelines.
Official title: To provide for updates to the Federal Aviation Administration type certification process to support development of new and novel technologies, and for other purposes.
Introduced February 12, 2026 by Troy E. Nehls · Last progress February 12, 2026