Overview

• The executive order tasks the FAA with scrapping the five-decade ban on civilian supersonic flight over U.S. territory.
• Regulators must finalize the repeal within 180 days and launch a notice-and-comment process for new noise-based operating standards.
• The White House says modern noise-reduction advances make faster-than-sound travel safe, sustainable, and commercially viable.
• In January, Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator reached Mach 1.122 over California’s Mojave Desert without producing an audible ground-level sonic boom.
• Boom Supersonic aims to have its Overture airliner operational by the end of the decade to speed coast-to-coast routes and bolster U.S. aviation competitiveness.