A bill to amend the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, as amended, to delay by 6 months the installation of emergency locator transmitters on fixed-wing powered civil aircraft.

Summary

Delays for six months the installation of emergency locator transmitters on fixed-wing, powered civil aircraft. Exempts from the provisions requiring the installation of emergency locator transmitters: (1) turbojet-powered aircraft; (2) aircraft while engaged in scheduled flights by scheduled air carriers certificated by the Board; (3) aircraft while engaged in training operations conducted entirely within a fifty-mile radius of the airport from which such local flight operations began; (4) aircraft while engaged in flight operations incident to design and testing; (5) new aircraft while engaged in flight operations incident to their manufacture, preparation, and delivery; (6) aircraft while engaged in flight operations incident to the aerial application of chemicals and other substances for agricultural purposes; (7) aircraft certificated by the Administrator for research and development purposes; (8) aircraft while used for showing compliance with regulations, crew training, exhibition, air racing, or market surveys; and (9) aircraft equipped to carry not more than one person.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 19 December 1973

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