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"This is outstanding news as far as the continuing trend of lower accident totals in experimental category and amateur-built aircraft, especially as total flight hours increased over the past 12 months. The FAA continues to challenge our community by lowering the not-to-exceed number each year and we have met that challenge over the past decade, as we have seen fatal accident totals drop by nearly 40 percent for both experimental and amateur-built aircraft over the past decade."
Source: Sean Elliott, EAA's vice president of advocacy and safety, commenting on the safety totals for experimental amateur-built aircraft -- as they continued their decade-long improvement trend in 2020, as fatal accident totals finished below the Federal Aviation
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