FAA selects two fuels for unleaded avgas testing

By 2016-03-30T00:45:20

Tecnam P2008 Rotax 912iS

​A nearly decade-long search by the US government to find a new avgas formula that can replace leaded fuel in hundreds of thousands of piston-powered aircraft has entered a final, two-year evaluation with two remaining contenders: global heavyweight Shell and US-based start-up Swift Fuels.

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