Year in Review: Culture Change Marks Huerta's FAA Legacy
Part 23 rewrite brings performance-based standards.
Over his five-year term as FAA Adminstrator, Michael Huerta has reshaped the U.S. aviation agency from being prescriptive and enforcement-based to one of collaboration, risk-based and compliance oriented. (Photo: NBAA)
Over his five-year term as FAA Adminstrator, Michael Huerta has reshaped the U.S. aviation agency from being prescriptive and enforcement-based to one of collaboration, risk-based and compliance oriented. (Photo: NBAA)

Michael Huerta set the stage for 2017—the last year of his five-year term as FAA administrator—proclaiming that a new rule would “usher in a new era” for general aviation safety and innovation. That rule, released at the end of 2016 and formally implemented August 30, was the sweeping rewrite of Part 23 rules governing the certification of light aircraft.


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