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Safe Aviation and Flight Enhancement Act of 2015

Introduced: February 5, 2015 See on congress.gov
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Feb 6, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
Feb 5, 2015
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Feb 5, 2015
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Safe Aviation and Flight Enhancement Act of 2015

Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to require all commercial passenger aircraft ordered by an air carrier on or after January 1, 2017, to be equipped with a deployable recorder system as the second combination FDR/CVR recorder system installed under International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) flight recorder standards.

Defines: (1) "commercial passenger aircraft" to mean a jet aircraft with a maximum certificated take-off mass over 15,000 kilograms that is required to be equipped with two combination recorder systems in accordance with ICAO requirements; and (2) "deployable recorder system" to mean a flight data recorder, cockpit voice recorder, and emergency locator transmitter housed in one crash protected, floatable unit that meets the performance specifications under specified standards of the FAA and the European Organization for Civil Aviation Equipment.

What's happening now February 6, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.

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Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Jun 9, 2015
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 772: Safe Aviation and Flight Enhancement Act of 2015. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-772/
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"H.R. 772: Safe Aviation and Flight Enhancement Act of 2015." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-772/.
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H.R. 772, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-772/.
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