Industry Outlines Impediments to Full ADS-B Equipage
With five years to go, industry-wide compliance by 2020 is starting to look unlikely.

It must have seemed straightforward enough to FAA planners. They had laid down a mandate back in 2010 that by midnight on Dec. 31, 2019, all aircraft flying in the NAS must carry ADS-B avionics. Surely, the planners reckoned, 10 years’ notice was enough time for everyone to comply.