Safe Air on Airplanes Act
Official title: To require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall update the regulations to issue regulations to phase out the use of bleed air systems… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: To require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall update the regulations to issue regulations to phase out the use of bleed air systems in certain aircraft, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
Safe Air on Airplanes Act
This bill directs the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to update regulations to phase out and prohibit bleed air systems in certain types of aircraft. In general, a bleed air system uses compressed air that is taken from an aircraft engine that is upstream of the combustion chamber and provides pressurized air for the aircraft’s environmental control system (e.g., ventilation).
Under the bill, the FAA must
- prohibit new turbine and turboprop aircraft designs from using bleed air systems,
- require (beginning seven years after the bill’s enactment) that any bleed air system in a newly manufactured aircraft is fitted with a filter (i.e., a device that removes gaseous and particulate components of oil fumes), and
- provide for a phaseout (over a 30-year period) of the use of bleed air systems in existing turbine and turboprop aircraft designs.
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- INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS
- HONEYWELL AEROSPACE US LLC
- AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION
- THE SMITH-FREE GROUP, LLC
- AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC. (D/B/A AIRLINES FOR AMERICA)
- AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC. (D/B/A AIRLINES FOR AMERICA)
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
- Transportation, Dept of (DOT)
- Commerce, Dept of (DOC)
- Natl Economic Council (NEC)
- Defense, Dept of (DOD)
- Executive Office of the President (EOP)
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4994: Safe Air on Airplanes Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-4994/
"H.R. 4994: Safe Air on Airplanes Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-4994/.
H.R. 4994, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-4994/.
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