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HR 2632 108th Congress House

Safe Aviation and Flight Enhancement Act

Official title: To direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue a regulation requiring the installation of 2 combination cockpit voice recorder and digital flight data reco… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue a regulation requiring the installation of 2 combination cockpit voice recorder and digital flight data recorder systems in each commercial passenger aircraft, currently required to carry each of those recorders, and for other purposes.

Introduced: March 17, 2004 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jun 27, 2003
Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
Jun 26, 2003
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Jun 26, 2003
Introduced in House
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 Latest action June 27, 2003

Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Safe Aviation and Flight Enhancement Act - Amends Federal aviation law to direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations requiring all commercial aircraft to carry both a cockpit voice recorder and digital flight data recorder equipped with two combination cockpit voice and digital flight data recording systems.

Mandates that one system be located as close to the cockpit as practicable, and that the other be a deployable recorder system mounted as far rear on the airframe as practicable. Sets forth minimum recorder capabilities.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) purchase and make available, at no cost, to an air carrier such fixed recorder systems and deployable recorder systems as may be necessary for the air carrier to comply with regulations; and (2) reimburse aircraft manufacturers owned or controlled by a U.S. citizen for engineering, certification, and installation costs incurred in developing and installing fixed recorder and deployable recorder systems in compliance with regulations.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 5
All 5 Democratic 1 Republican 2
D
Pallone, Frank
New Jersey · Mar 17, 2004
FROST, MARTIN
· Feb 11, 2004
 R
Boozman, John
Arkansas · Oct 8, 2003
 R
Rogers, Harold
Kentucky · Sep 5, 2003
Isakson, Johnny
· Jul 17, 2003
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2632: Safe Aviation and Flight Enhancement Act. 108th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/108-HR-2632/
MLA
"H.R. 2632: Safe Aviation and Flight Enhancement Act." 108th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/108-HR-2632/.
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H.R. 2632, 108th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/108-HR-2632/.
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