As most pilots following the efforts to get unleaded avgas to users are aware, there was a consent judgment entered into between the Center for Environmental Health, a California nonprofit organization, and a score of FBOs and avgas distributors in December 2014. The quick summary of the agreement and court order is that it required those FBOs and fuel distributors to sell unleaded avgas as soon as it was “commercially available.” The case was filed in Alameda County, California.
Just before we went to press, we learned that the Center for Environmental Health has filed a series of pleadings to enforce the 2014 judgment and is asking that the court find the FBOs in contempt of court for failing to comply with the judgment and seeking sanctions against the distributors because a high-octane unleaded avgas, GAMI’s G100UL, is commercially available in California.