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The Swift Fuels unleaded avgas team was active all week at AirVenture 2026 providing GA piston pilots, aircraft stakeholders, aviation enthusiasts and the general public with highlights of our plans to transition away from 100LL leaded avgas to a new unleaded avgas future by the end of December 2030. The attached 20-minute video interview of our CEO – Chris D’Acosta - was conducted by FLYING magazine during airshow event.

Effective May 1, 2026, Swift Fuels executed a Memo of Understanding to join efforts working with FAA fuel testing experts at the William J Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey to gain access to seven high-performance engines managed by the Tech Center to expand our portfolio of available engine testing results – with the ultimate aim to achieve FAA fleetwide approval of Swift’s 100R unleaded aviation gasoline.

West Lafayette, IN – The FAA has recently issued certificates for 1,200 piston engine models and as of today 1,600 airframe models were added to our original 100R Supplemental Type Certificate, which was first approved by FAA for our 100R unleaded avgas in September 2024. The FAA has completed these major steps as part of the US government’s call to transition to Unleaded Aviation gasoline by the end of 2030. These various certification actions, orchestrated by the FAA’s Central Certification Branch, cover a wide swath of piston aircraft engines and airframes now approved via STC for the use of Swift Fuels 100R unleaded avgas – all of which comply with ASTM International fuel specification D8603.

West Lafayette, IN – Swift Fuels congratulates 21-year-old South African pilot Shannon Russell for breaking the women`s altitude record of 30,052ft set in 1939 by Jacqueline Cochran and the Sling TSi altitude record. Shannon, a member of the Sling Pilot Academy holding Commercial and Sports Pilot Instructor ratings, piloted the unpressurized Sling TSi up to 32,059 feet. The 3.6 hours flight was conducted exclusively on Swift Fuels UL94 unleaded avgas.

West Lafayette, IN. On September 4, 2025, ASTM International published the final voting results approving Swift Fuels’ 100R unleaded avgas for an ASTM International Production Specification. This is the culmination of several years of dedicated research by the team from Swift Fuels working in collaboration with FAA and numerous OEMs from Lycoming, Continental Aerospace, Rotax, Textron Aviation, Piper, and others, plus testing laboratories and various aviation part suppliers. Members of the ASTM voting committees represent several hundred companies from around the world including major international oil companies plus fuel experts and representatives from military and civilian entities. This is the third time in 11 years that Swift Fuels has successfully navigated the ASTM process to be awarded an ASTM Production Specification for unleaded aviation gasoline.