The FAA held its second public "summit meeting" about aging GA airplanes on March 22-23, 2006. More than 170 representatives of government, industry, owner groups and type clubs packed the meeting room in Kansas City to listen to what the FAA had to say on the subject, and to present their views and ideas to the regulators. I was one of them.The meeting started off on a divisive note when Marv Nuss -- the aerospace engineer who heads up aging aircraft issues for the FAA's Small Airplane Directorate -- declared the purpose of the meeting was to address the FAA's concern that "the aging GA fleet poses an increasing threat to aviation safety," and then proceeded to repeat the word "threat" more than a dozen times in his overview.Nuss also expressed his view that "there are some GA aircraft out there that shouldn't operate much longer." That remark didn't exactly endear him to the owner association and type club representatives whose major goal is to "keep 'em flying."
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/ownership/the-savvy-aviator-32-2006-aging-ga-aircraft-summit