Swift Fuels, LLC has announced that Rabbit Aviation Services\nat San Carlos Airport has completed a planned upgrade to its aviation fuel tank\nfacility and will be the first airport with a fully-dedicated Unleaded Avgas\nstorage system in California to sell Swift\u2019s unleaded UL94 aviation gasoline\nfor its piston aircraft customers. Pilots can expect to resume purchasing UL94\nunleaded avgas at KSQL starting September 15, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The nationwide transition away from 100LL (leaded) avgas to\nunleaded aviation gasoline continues to increase momentum for Swift Fuels,\nwhich produces and sells the only commercially available unleaded avgas in the\nU.S. This latest announcement marks yet\nanother milestone for Swift Fuels, with Rabbit Aviation Services as\nCalifornia\u2019s only commercial fuel provider (FBO) to join the campaign to-date. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNobody likes lead, neither your engine nor the\nenvironment,\u201d said Dan DeMeo, CEO of Rabbit Aviation Services. \u201cGeneral\naviation needs a piston fuel for the future and that future doesn\u2019t include\ntoxic lead, so why not begin the transition with the highest-quality unleaded\nfuel? Working with our airport management and our elected county supervisors,\nwe drafted the first agreement to supply a lead-free avgas alternative in the\nstate. We hope this is the first of many such agreements to ensure general\naviation has a piston fuel for the future. Swift\u2019s UL94 solves the issues\nbrought by tetraethyllead and ethylene dibromide by radically lowering toxicity\nand engine corrosion, eliminating lead-fouled sparkplugs, and doubling the oil\nchange intervals vs. those required for 100LL. Our pilots and our community see\na large positive benefit to using UL94.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chris D\u2019Acosta, CEO for Swift Fuels also commented, \u201cSwift\nFuels\u2019 UL94 is the only commercially-available unleaded avgas in the US, it\u2019s\nsold nationwide, it\u2019s commercially insured for aviation, and pilots who use it\n\u2013 love it. Dan DeMeo has been a champion\nof this effort working with many local community leaders to join the\nprogressive nationwide movement toward unleaded avgas. In fact, similar news on\nfuel expansions is expected soon in Texas and Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chris D\u2019Acosta added, \u201cWe\u2019re proud to continue to lead this\nmulti-year initiative since 2015 to educate the market on the key benefits of\nunleaded avgas. This can only happen\nwith the ongoing support of forward-thinking regulators, aircraft\/engine OEMs,\npilots, airports, municipalities, airport boards and supply chain folks. Industry leaders like Dan DeMeo recognize the\ngrowing demand for cleaner fuel for their customers and continue to play an\nintegral role in the transition. We\nrecognized early on that pilots would value the longer maintenance intervals, less\nwear-and-tear on engines, less corrosion, longer sparkplug life, etc. We are\nextremely proud to have our UL94 avgas available for piston aircraft use at San\nCarlos Airport,\u201d said D\u2019Acosta. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Swift Fuels’ Unleaded UL94 Avgas is sold nationwide – priced\ncompetitively with 100LL and is expected to remain low subject to oil market\nvolatility. Over 110,000 aircraft are already FAA-authorized to use the UL94\nAvgas as a \u201cdrop-in ready\u201d fuel. Note that UL94 is not a full replacement for\n100LL, therefore, only those aircraft with engine \/ airframes requiring 94\nmotor-octane fuels or lower are compatible \u2013 which represents 65% of the US\npiston fleet. For more information about UL94 and the latest listing of\nairports with Swift Fuels UL94 available, please visit: www.swiftfuels.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Swift Fuels, LLC has announced that Rabbit Aviation Services at San Carlos Airport has completed a planned upgrade to its aviation fuel tank facility and will be the first airport with a fully-dedicated Unleaded Avgas storage system in California to sell Swift\u2019s unleaded UL94 aviation gasoline for its piston aircraft customers. Pilots can expect to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13417,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13416\/revisions\/13417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}