Way back in February, the FAA, most of general aviation’s alphabet soup and even the American Petroleum Institute, representing Big Oil, announced their EAGLE Initiative: Eliminate Aviation Gasoline Lead Emissions. A joint press release at the time noted the new effort outlines how the U.S. “can safely eliminate the use of leaded aviation fuel by the end of 2030 without adversely affecting the existing piston-engine fleet.”
In our April 2022 issue, I noted the EAGLE announcement drew me back to memories of the FAA’s PAFI initiative of the 2010s, which foundered in 2018 without any notable progress. Now, four months after being formed, the EAGLE group has issued a statement following its “June 2022 stakeholder update.”
