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Boosting Runway Safety

Published by Federal Aviation Administration on September 8, 2026.

The FAA's own blog post counting arresting beds by runway end and by airport, and saying airports install them when they cannot feasibly meet the standard runway safety area. The page carries no publication date; the date here is the day it was saved.

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EMAS is now at 122 runway ends at 70 airports in more than two dozen U.S. states.

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