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Accessible lavatories

The Air Transportation Division (AFS-200) needs the ability to certify lavatories that are accessible to passengers with disabilities by FY28. This research will focus on conducting a feasibility study to assess the space requirements for accessible lavatories and their compatibility with various sized aircraft. In the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) FY2024 Appropriations bill, Congress wrote: Aircraft Accessibility Research.—The Committee directs the FAA to research how transport category aircraft accessibility can be improved. This research should include how manual and powered personal wheelchairs can be safely secured in the passenger seating areas of transport category airplanes, determining the optimal safe evacuation processes for persons with disabilities, including persons who use wheelchairs, and determining how various types of transport category airplanes could most safely and efficiently be retrofit for accessible lavatories. The FAA shall include the resource needs for such research in future budget justifications. (Ref: Senate report 118-70). This project will focus on how various designs of varying types of transport category airplanes could most safely and efficiently be retrofit for accessible lavatories.