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News Note: EU scraps legislation
By: AIN Staff
Caption: Legislation to ban certain large transport aircraft that have hush kits from using all European airports starting next April has been scrapped by the Europ
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Legislation to ban certain large transport aircraft that have hush kits from using all European airports starting next April has been scrapped by the European Union. Consequently, the U.S. withdrew a formal complaint submitted last year to the International Civil Aviation Organization. The U.S. maintained that the regulation, that applied to hush-kitted aircraft over 75,000 lb mtow, discriminated against U.S. manufacturers. The EU maintained that hush kits only marginally bring airplanes into compliance with Stage 3 noise levels.