Document ID: FAA-2013-0259-3419
Agency: faa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Proposed Policy on Enabling the Use of Unleaded Aviation Gasoline in Piston Engine Aircraft and Aircraft Engines through the Fleet Authorization Process
Posted Date: 2022-10-05T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 192 (Wednesday, October 5, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 60430]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-21530]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

Proposed Policy on Enabling the Use of Unleaded Aviation Gasoline 
in Piston Engine Aircraft and Aircraft Engines Through the Fleet 
Authorization Process

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice of availability; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the availability of a draft Policy 
Statement PS-AIR-20-2000-DRAFT, Enabling the Use of Unleaded Aviation 
Gasoline in Piston Engine Aircraft and Aircraft Engines through the 
Fleet Authorization Process. The FAA invites public comment on PS-AIR-
20-2000-DRAFT.

DATES: The FAA must receive comments on these proposed documents by 
December 5, 2022.

ADDRESSES: PS-AIR-20-2000-DRAFT can be viewed and receive comment 
submissions through the FAA's Aviation Safety Draft Documents website, 
https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/draft_docs.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ansel James, Research Coordination 
Branch, AIR-670, Policy and Innovation Division, Aircraft Certification 
Service, Federal Aviation Administration, 107 Charles W Grant Pkwy., 
Atlanta, GA 30354-3705; telephone and fax (404) 474-5427; email 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    PS-AIR-20-2000-DRAFT describes the Fleet Authorization process to 
allow eligible aircraft and aircraft engines to operate using qualified 
unleaded aviation gasoline (avgas). The use of unleaded avgas in 
aircraft has been addressed by Congress in section 565, Aviation Fuel, 
of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, (Pub. L. 115-254). Section 565 
includes language that requires the FAA to adopt a process, other than 
the traditional means of certification, to authorize the use of 
unleaded avgas in aircraft and aircraft engines. This policy statement 
defines that process.

Comments Invited

    The FAA invites public comments on the draft policy statement 
concerning the proposed Fleet Authorization process for enabling the 
use of unleaded aviation gasoline in piston engine aircraft. The FAA 
will consider the public comments submitted during this comment period 
through the FAA's Aviation Safety Draft Documents website in finalizing 
PS-AIR-20-2000-DRAFT.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on September 29, 2022.
Bruce E. DeCleene,
Deputy Director, Policy and Innovation Division, Aircraft Certification 
Service.
[FR Doc. 2022-21530 Filed 10-4-22; 8:45 am]
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