USCTA Alerts

The House T&I Committee met earlier today and approved aviation safety legislation known as the ALERT Act, including troubling provision from the Pilot and Aircraft Privacy Act that would prevent airports from using ADS-B to collect any revenue from operators including takeoff and landing fees or to initiate an investigation (Section 105).

We need your help now to urge House T&I committee members to back an amendment from Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-CA) to strike AOPA-backed provisions (Section 105) in the modified ALERT Act.

The leadership of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has just announced that it will consider a modified version of the aviation safety bill known as the ALERT Act on Thursday.

This is the final reminder to contact your representatives and ask them to sign a letter requesting full funding for the FAA Contract Tower Program in the Fiscal Year 2027 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill.

This is a reminder to contact your Representative as soon as possible and ask your elected official to sign a letter requesting full funding for the FAA Contract Tower Program in the Fiscal Year 2027 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill.

Please contact your Representative today and ask your elected official to sign a letter requesting full funding for the FAA Contract Tower Program in the FY27 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill.  

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is planning to mark up a modified aviation safety bill next week, and we expect that it will include a variation of the PAPA Act.

House T&I Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) recently announced that the committee plans to consider broad aviation safety legislation known as the ALERT Act next week.

Senator Tim Sheehy (R-MT) and three other senators today introduced a bipartisan bill that would require the FAA to equip contract towers with Airborne Position Reference Tools unless they already have similar technology in place.

The House of Representatives this afternoon failed to provide the two-thirds majority needed to approve the Senate-passed ROTOR Act.