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113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3363 
To ensure that the Federal Aviation Administration advances the safety 
of small airplanes and the continued development of the general aviation 
industry, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 29, 2013 
Mr. POMPEO introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To ensure that the Federal Aviation Administration advances 
the safety of small airplanes and the continued develop-
ment of the general aviation industry, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Small Airplane Revital-
ization Act of 2013’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
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(1) A healthy small aircraft industry is integral 
to economic growth and to maintaining an effective 
transportation infrastructure for communities and 
countries around the world. 
(2) Small airplanes comprise nearly 90 percent 
of general aviation aircraft certified by the Federal 
Aviation Administration. 
(3) General aviation provides for the cultivation 
of a workforce of engineers, manufacturing and 
maintenance professionals, and pilots who secure the 
economic success and defense of the United States. 
(4) General aviation contributes to well-paying 
jobs in the manufacturing and technology sectors in 
the United States and products produced by those 
sectors are exported in great numbers. 
(5) Technology developed and proven in general 
aviation aids in the success and safety of all sectors 
of aviation and scientific competence. 
(6) The average small airplane in the United 
States is now 40 years old and the regulatory bar-
riers to bringing new designs to the market are re-
sulting in a lack of innovation and investment in 
small airplane design. 
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(7) Since 2003, the United States lost 10,000 
active private pilots per year on average, partially 
due to a lack of cost-effective, new small airplanes. 
(8) General aviation safety can be improved by 
modernizing and revamping the regulations relating 
to small airplanes to clear the path for technology 
adoption and cost-effective means to retrofit the ex-
isting fleet with new safety technologies. 
SEC. 3. SAFETY AND REGULATORY IMPROVEMENTS FOR 
GENERAL AVIATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than December 15, 
2015, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Adminis-
tration shall issue a final rule— 
(1) to advance the safety and continued devel-
opment of small airplanes by reorganizing the cer-
tification requirements for such airplanes under part 
23 to streamline the approval of safety advance-
ments; and 
(2) that meets the objectives described in sub-
section (b). 
(b) OBJECTIVES DESCRIBED.—The objectives de-
scribed in this subsection are based on the recommenda-
tions of the Part 23 Reorganization Aviation Rulemaking 
Committee: 
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(1) The establishment of a regulatory regime 
for small airplanes that will improve safety and re-
duce the regulatory cost burden for the Federal 
Aviation Administration and the aviation industry. 
(2) The establishment of broad, outcome-driven 
safety objectives that will spur innovation and tech-
nology adoption. 
(3) The replacement of current, prescriptive re-
quirements under part 23 with performance-based 
regulations. 
(4) The use of consensus standards accepted by 
the Federal Aviation Administration to clarify how 
the safety objectives of part 23 may be met using 
specific designs and technologies. 
(c) CONSENSUS-BASED STANDARDS.—In prescribing 
regulations under this section, the Administrator shall use 
consensus standards, as described in section 12(d) of the 
National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 
1996 (15 U.S.C. 272 note), to the extent practicable while 
continuing traditional methods for meeting part 23. 
(d) SAFETY COOPERATION.—The Administrator shall 
lead the effort to improve general aviation safety by work-
ing with leading aviation regulators to assist them in 
adopting a complementary regulatory approach for small 
airplanes. 
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(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) CONSENSUS STANDARDS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘consensus 
standards’’ means standards developed by an 
organization described in subparagraph (B) 
that may include provisions requiring that own-
ers of relevant intellectual property have agreed 
to make that intellectual property available on 
a nondiscriminatory, royalty-free, or reasonable 
royalty basis to all interested persons. 
(B) ORGANIZATIONS DESCRIBED.—An or-
ganization described in this subparagraph is a 
domestic or international organization that— 
(i) plans, develops, establishes, or co-
ordinates, through a process based on con-
sensus and using agreed-upon procedures, 
voluntary standards; and 
(ii) operates in a transparent manner, 
considers a balanced set of interests with 
respect to such standards, and provides for 
due process and an appeals process with 
respect to such standards. 
(2) PART 23.—The term ‘‘part 23’’ means part 
23 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations. 
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(3) PART 23 REORGANIZATION AVIATION RULE-
MAKING COMMITTEE.—The term ‘‘Part 23 Reorga-
nization Aviation Rulemaking Committee’’ means 
the aviation rulemaking committee established by 
the Federal Aviation Administration in August 2011 
to consider the reorganization of the regulations 
under part 23. 
(4) SMALL AIRPLANE.—The term ‘‘small air-
plane’’ means an airplane which is certified to part 
23 standards. 
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