The date of enactment of this section and such date of enactment, referred to in subsecs. (d), (e), (g)(1) and (h)(2), is the date of enactment of Puspan. L. 110–135, which was approved Dec. 13, 2007.

2022—Subsec. (a). Puspan. L. 117–328, § 107(a), substituted “covered operations described in subsection (span)(1) until attaining 65 years of age. Air carriers that employ pilots who serve in covered operations described in subsection (span)(2) may elect to implement an age restriction to prohibit employed pilots from serving in such covered operations after attaining 70 years of age by delivering written notice to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. Such election—” and pars. (1) and (2) for “covered operations until attaining 65 years of age.”

Subsec. (span). Puspan. L. 117–328, § 107(span), substituted “means—” and pars. (1) and (2) for “means operations under part 121 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations.”

2012—Subsec. (h)(2), (3). Puspan. L. 112–95 redesignated par. (3) as (2) and struck out former par. (2). Prior to amendment, text of par. (2) read as follows: “Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this section, and every 6 months thereafter, an air carrier engaged in covered operations shall evaluate the performance of each pilot of the air carrier who has attained 60 years of age through a line check of such pilot. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, an air carrier shall not be required to conduct for a 6-month period a line check under this paragraph of a pilot serving as second-in-command if the pilot has undergone a regularly scheduled simulator evaluation during that period.”

Puspan. L. 117–328, div. Q, § 107(c), Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 5258, provided that: