We support the Federal Aviation Administration’s Eliminate Aviation Gasoline Lead Emissions initiative, which aims to “eliminate leaded aviation fuels in piston-engine aircraft safely by the ...

Centennial Airport, the first and currently only Colorado airport to offer unleaded gas, has been approved to receive a $300,000 grant to support a price subsidy program. Skip to content FOX31 Denver ...

Infrastructure is another limiting factor; leaded and unleaded aviation gasoline cannot be mixed in the same vessels. Therefore storage tanks and other fuel-handling equipment must be replaced at ...

The 94UL fuel is essentially a transition unleaded gasoline. It works with most, but not all, of the 350 prop aircraft that are based at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, Anslow said.

However, the approval of the unleaded gas at long last means the FAA’s goal to transition the aviation industry entirely to unleaded AV gas by 2030 is vastly more doable.

The 94UL fuel is essentially a transition unleaded gasoline. It works with most, but not all, of the 350 prop aircraft that are based at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, Anslow said.

Until about the 1971 model year, metallurgists designed engines with leaded gas in mind. Valves pick up a protective coating (lubrication) with leaded gasoline that they miss with unleaded.

The 94UL fuel is essentially a transition unleaded gasoline. It works with most, but not all, of the 350 prop aircraft that are based at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, Anslow said.

US regulators have approved the use of a 100-octane unleaded fuel in all spark-ignition aviation engines, a move the general aviation industry says will help its transition away from leaded fuel.

A transition away from leaded aircraft fuel, experts said, will not come overnight. The EPA must first propose and develop regulatory standards for lead emissions on certain aircraft.

Leaded fuel has not been used at the airport since January of last year. It was banned over health and safety concerns. But now it appears the issue is circling the airport again.

Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport says it is on track to make the switch to unleaded aviation fuel three years ahead of the FAA deadline. RMMA is the fastest-growing airport in Colorado with ...