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House Panel To Consider Supersonic, FAA Shutdown Funding Bills

Supersonic bill calls for FAA to issue new regs in a year

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By Kerry Lynch • Editor, AIN monthly magazine

December 17, 2025

The U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee plans to consider a bill on Thursday that would help clear a path for the return of supersonic flight over land. H.R.3410, the Supersonic Aviation Modernization Act, is among several key bills the T&I committee is set to take action on during Thursday’s markup, with others designed to fund key parts of the FAA during government shutdowns, create a study on digitizing agency functions, and ease access to airport funding.

Introduced by House aviation subcommittee chair Troy Nehls (R-Texas) in May with similar legislation offered by Sen. Ted Budd (R-North Carolina) in the Senate, the Supersonic Aviation Modernization Act would call on the FAA to issue or revise regulations within a year that would permit civil aircraft without special authorization to operate beyond Mach 1 in the National Airspace System as long as “the aircraft is operated in such a manner that no sonic boom reaches the ground in the United States.”

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