According to a fact sheet provided by the United States House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, the general aviation industry "includes nearly 600,000 pilots, employs roughly 1.3 million people, and contributes approximately $150 billion annually to the U.S.

"[1] The Committee was "charged with creating a progressive, tier-based system so that small recreational airplanes won't have to be designed and certificated under the same regulatory requirements as heavier, more complex and higher performance aircraft.

[4] The bill would require the Administrator to issue a final rule meeting certain consensus-based standards and FAA Part 23 Reorganization Aviation Rulemaking Committee objectives, including to: (1) create a regulatory regime for small airplane safety; (2) set broad, outcome-driven objectives that will spur small plane innovation and technology adoption; (3) replace current, prescriptive requirements contained in FAA rules with performance-based regulations; and (4) use FAA-accepted consensus standards to clarify how Part 23 safety objectives may be met by specific small plane safety designs and technologies.

[8] Arguing in favor of the bill when he introduced it, Rep. Mike Pompeo said, "The existing outdated certification process needlessly increases the cost of safety and technology upgrades by up to 10 times.

Michael Thacker, senior vice president of engineering at Cessna, an American aircraft company, spoke in favor of the bill, saying that "the active and willing participation of the FAA and other international regulatory bodies has been critical to the success of this effort so far.

[10][11] The Small Aircraft Revitalization Act of 2013's companion bill, introduced by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), S. 1072 (which is considered nearly identical), was criticized for two reasons by Aviation International News editor-in-chief Matt Thurber, an FAA antagonist.