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FAA mulls Washington ADIZ change
While legislation that would direct the Transportation Security Administration to study the vulnerability of general aviation airports to terrorist acts is

While legislation that would direct the Transportation Security Administration to study the vulnerability of general aviation airports to terrorist acts is dragging through Congress, there is talk in the GA community about possible changes to the widely reviled Washington, D.C., air defense identification zone (ADIZ). The ADIZ now covers 3,700 sq mi that closely follow the Washington-Baltimore Class B airspace.

The FAA is in the midst of a rulemaking process to define any airspace rules and regulations for the nation’s capital. The agency is still reviewing roughly 22,000 comments on the proposal–more than 20,000 of which were negative and called for abolition of the ADIZ–and has until July to make a final decision. But that could be extended.

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