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The bill improves clarity, safety training, and transparency to speed adoption of unleaded aviation fuels, but shifts costs onto FAA and small operators and risks short-term market disruptions during the transition.
Flight instructors, flight schools, FBOs and general aviation pilots get clear, updated authorization guidance plus annual training on using and handling unleaded fuels, reducing operational confusion and improving safety at airports.
Operators and the public gain a centralized public website and authorization-tracking mechanism that increases transparency about fuel availability and federal incentives (including tax credits), helping businesses and pilots plan purchases and investments.
Congress and oversight committees receive regular briefings on authorization progress and fuel sales, providing visibility that can accelerate regulatory approval and targeted federal support for the transition.
Smaller FBOs and local airports must bear costs to attend required training and to change handling or infrastructure for unleaded fuels, increasing operating expenses—especially for rural and small operators.
The FAA must fund and staff a multi-year program (including maintaining the website and briefings through 2036), creating added administrative costs that are likely borne by taxpayers or through FAA budget trade-offs.
Comparative sales reporting (unleaded vs. 100LL) could reveal rapid market shifts that cause short-term supply disruptions or price volatility for pilots and operators during the transition.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires FAA to create (within 1 year) an education program and public website tracking authorization, compatibility, availability, and safety of unleaded aviation gasoline through 2036.
Requires the FAA Administrator to set up an education and public information program about new unleaded aviation gasoline within one year. The program must maintain an updated public website listing authorized and candidate unleaded fuels (compatibility, authorization status, availability, STC needs, safety info, federal incentives), provide an authorization-tracking tool, coordinate training for FBOs and related personnel, brief congressional committees periodically, and end on December 31, 2036.
Official title: To require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to establish an education program on unleaded aviation gasoline, and for other purposes.
Introduced April 29, 2026 by Donald Sternoff Beyer · Last progress April 29, 2026