Changing airworthiness requirements for air taxi operators and their effect on manufacturers. Paper presented at the National Business Aircraft Meeting, Wichita, Kansas, March 26-28, 1968.

The purpose of this paper is to review the important developments in air taxi operations the reasons leading to regulatory actions by the Federal Aviation Administration to raise the level of airworthiness for small airplanes capable of carrying mote than 10 persons in air taxi or commercial operations.