Airmen Certificate Accessibility Act
Official title: A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to establish acceptable formats for presentation of airman certificates to the Federal Aviation Administration.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Airmen Certificate Accessibility Act
This bill allows a pilot to present a digital copy of certain certificates (e.g., an airman certificate or a medical certificate) when required to present such documentation by a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inspector.
Under current FAA regulations, a pilot must present for inspection a physical copy of an airman certificate and other paperwork upon a request from the FAA; a federal, state, or local law enforcement officer; or an authorized representative of the Transportation Security Administration or the National Transportation Safety Board. This bill allows a pilot to present a certificate such as an airman certificate or a medical certificate to an FAA inspector as (1) a physical certificate, or (2) a digital copy stored on an electronic device or cloud storage platform.
The FAA must update current regulations to implement this change.
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 4256: Airmen Certificate Accessibility Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4256/
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