Regulations and Government
FAA Targets Later This Year for Part 23 Proposal
FAA Administrator Michael Huerta believes "industry will be very pleased with where it is."

The FAA expects to release the Part 23 rewrite notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) later this year, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta confirmed. General aviation leaders have pushed the agency to release an NPRM on the light aircraft certification standards this summer, fearing any later release could cause lengthy delays as the rulemaking gets caught up in a change of administrations in 2017. During a recent Senate Commerce Committee hearing, Huerta told lawmakers, “I think it would be ambitious to say, 'I’m going to get it published this summer.' We’re very focused on getting it published this year.”