When President Biden signed the sweeping five-year FAA and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reauthorization package into law on May 16, he put in motion a 1,000-page bill that incorporates more than 1,200 measures and directives, including many that affect the business and general aviation community.
While years in the making, the completion of the bill came less than a year after the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (T&I) passed it unanimously and just three months after the Senate Commerce Committee voted out its version. And while it did take four short-term extensions of the FAA’s operating authority before the House and Senate concluded work on it, that was relatively short and painless compared with the process in recent decades, which was often contentious—pitting one aviation sector against another—and required dozens of extensions.
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