Regulations and Government
Barr Battle Moves into the Courts
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Within days of the Department of Transportation’s announcement that it was all but dismantling the Block Aircraft Registration Request Program (Barr), NBAA, AOPA and the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) announced they would challenge the decision in court.

“We will continue to fight to preserve the Barr program,” said NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen after the FAA published a notice in the Federal Register that it planned to restrict the Barr program severely on Aug. 1, 2011. The program provides any person or company using general aviation a means to opt out of having the details of their flight operations broadcast through aircraft situation display to industry (ASDI) data.