[feb]

Impressive work by GAMI who are working on it since decades. AVWeb made 2 videos on the subject of leaded avgas and on how hard it is to get it approved. In addition, the FAA launched several failed attempts with the industry at large.

  * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F-WngVMJBQ The Long, Twisted And Slightly Ridiculous Story of Avgas Part 1
  * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvse4Xhzwuk The Long, Twisted And Slightly Ridiculous Story of Avgas Part 2

When reading the announcement, it looks like some municipalities in California started banning the sale of leaded avgas and I suspect that helped to push the FAA to finally move in approving G1000UL. Not surprisingly, they will start providing it to the California market before the other states. In the announcement on avweb.com (https://www.avweb.com/ownership/fuel-news/gami-unleaded-avga...), they also credit Mark Baker from the AOAP to encourage the FAA to complete the project.