Throughout the 2011 calendar year, the (US) National Transportation Safety Board conducted a study of Experimental-Amateur Built (E-AB) aircraft to evaluate the safety of this growing and innovative segment of general aviation.

“The co-operation we have received from EAA and the E-AB community has been tremendous,” said NTSB Chairman Deborah A.P Hersman. She added, “Through this study, we hope that we will be able to give the innovators and aviators in the community information about accidents that will result in a real and immediate safety payoff for them when they are flying these aircraft.”