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The bill improves transparency, guidance, training, and oversight to help transition general aviation to unleaded fuels, but shifts costs to taxpayers and small aviation businesses and risks short-term market volatility during the transition.
Flight instructors, flight schools, FBOs, and general aviation pilots get clear, updated guidance on which unleaded fuels are authorized and how to use them, reducing operational confusion and easing day-to-day flight operations.
Operators and taxpayers gain a public website and authorization-tracking mechanism that improve transparency about fuel availability and federal incentives, helping operators plan purchases and investments.
FBO leadership and staff receive annual training on handling unleaded fuel, reducing safety risks and improper handling at airports.
Smaller FBOs and rural airports face new costs to attend annual training and implement handling changes for unleaded fuels, increasing operational expenses for small aviation businesses.
FAA and taxpayers will bear ongoing administrative costs to fund and staff the program, maintain an updated public website, and provide briefings through 2036, potentially diverting FAA budget priorities or raising taxpayer expense.
Comparative sales reporting (unleaded vs 100LL) could reveal market shifts that lead to short-term supply disruptions or price volatility for pilots and operators during the transition to unleaded fuels.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires FAA to establish an education program and public website tracking authorization, compatibility, availability, and safety of unleaded aviation gasoline; program ends Dec 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
Requires the FAA Administrator to create an education and outreach program about new unleaded aviation gasoline within 1 year. The program must maintain a public, continuously updated website listing authorized and candidate unleaded fuels, compatibility and safety information, availability estimates, authorization-tracking, and provide training coordination for flight schools, FBOs, instructors, and general aviation users; the program ends December 31, 2036. The FAA must brief relevant House and Senate committees within 6 months of establishing the program and periodically afterward about website updates, authorization status of candidate fuels, and estimated annual gallons of unleaded fuel sold versus 100LL.