Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act (H.R.3935) is on track to make it through the House – Transportation and Infrastructure committee. This bill reauthorizes the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) through FY2028.
Under the very aptly named Subtitle A – Expanding Pilot Privileges And Protections, the following responsibilities are added:
- FAA is to support process where private aircraft owner can request identifiable data (e.g. registration number) is blocked from any public dissemination or display (Sec. 204 (a)(a))
- FAA is to support procedure where the personally identifiable information of an individual shall be withheld from public disclosure on the Civil Aviation Registry website (Sec. 204 (a)(b))
- FAA is to accept applications new ICAO Aircraft Identification Codes (Sec. 204 (a)(c))
- FAA is has 1 year to come up with plans to decouple a Mode S code with the number assigned to an aircraft, and to enter into an agreement on studying encrypting ADS–B signals. (Sec. 204 (a)(d), (b)(1))
Benefits for the top 1% under the guise of personal freedom. If Congress can close jet tracking loopholes used on billionaires, why can't they close the tax loopholes abused by billionaires?