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Report Targets Means To Reduce Leaded Avgas

The congressionally-mandated National Academies report says a multi-pronged effort is necessary to reduce reliance on leaded avgas.

By Kerry Lynch • Editor, AIN monthly magazine

January 13, 2021

A broad-based and sustained commitment across the aviation industry, along with the FAA and other government agencies, is necessary if significant progress is going to be made on reducing lead emissions from aviation-gasoline-powered aircraft, according to a new report released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine .

Developed by a Committee on Lead Emissions from Piston-Powered General Aviation Aircraft with the support of the Department of Transportation, the congressionally-mandated report found that questions surrounding current efforts to develop a drop-in replacement unleaded aviation fuel mean other steps will be necessary to begin reducing lead emissions and exposures.

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