General aviation industry members of the Eliminate Aviation Gasoline Lead Emissions (EAGLE) initiative are applauding the news of the first unleaded fuel candidate to successfully pass the most rigorous Piston Aviation Fuels Initiative (PAFI) initial detonation and 150-hour engine durability test phase, and continued progress toward an unleaded future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The FAA issued the following statement last week:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Federal Aviation Administration has approved the\nadvancement to full-scale engine and flight testing of unleaded UL100E aviation\nfuel for piston-engine aircraft developed by LyondellBasell Industries\/VP\nRacing. The UL100E fuel successfully passed a 150-hour engine durability test\nunder the Piston Aviation Fuels Initiative (PAFI), a collaborative\nindustry\/government testing program. LyondellBasell\/VP Racing UL100E is the\nfirst unleaded fuel to pass the PAFI 150-hour durability test phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is another important milestone for a safe General\nAviation transition to unleaded fuel and for our goal to eliminate lead\nemissions by the end of 2030. The joint industry\/government effort continues to\nmake strong progress,\u201d said Lirio Liu, FAA Executive Director of Aircraft\nCertification Service and Government Co-Chair of the Eliminate Aviation\nGasoline Lead Emissions (EAGLE) government-industry partnership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe LyondellBasell\/VP Racing\u2019s achievement marks an\nimportant waypoint on the path to a more environmentally friendly future for\naviation fuel and demonstrates the progress we\u2019ve made through our government\nand aviation community partnership. EAGLE celebrates this milestone and looks\nforward to more opportunities to recognize industry ingenuity and innovation,\u201d\nsaid Curt Castagna, President of the National Air Transport Association (NATA)\nand Industry Co-Chair of the EAGLE initiative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The LyondellBasell\/VP Racing\u2019s unleaded fuel will now move\ninto the PAFI full-scale engine and airframe testing consisting of ten engines\nand eight aircraft, which is expected to be completed in 12-18 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The PAFI program rigorously tests candidate fuels through\nvarious phases including evaluation of toxicology and environmental\nconsiderations, material compatibility, engine durability and detonation, and\naircraft performance and operability. Information gained from the testing\nsupports the development of an industry consensus ASTM International production\nspecification. Once the thorough PAFI testing procedures have been successfully\ncompleted and an ASTM production specification published, the FAA will then\nissue a fleet authorization to safely allow use of the fuel. The goal of PAFI\nis to test, not produce, fuels that can ensure both compatibility and safety\nwithin the piston-engine aircraft fleet as well as commercial viability for\ndeployment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For information about the EAGLE initiative, visit flyeagle.org<\/a>. For additional background on FAA\/industry establishment of EAGLE, recent progress and PAFI, visit faa.gov\/unleaded<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" General aviation industry members of the Eliminate Aviation Gasoline Lead Emissions (EAGLE) initiative are applauding the news of the first unleaded fuel candidate to successfully pass the most rigorous Piston Aviation Fuels Initiative (PAFI) initial detonation and 150-hour engine durability test phase, and continued progress toward an unleaded future. The FAA issued the following statement […]<\/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":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27356","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=27356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27357,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27356\/revisions\/27357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}