The Federal Aviation Administration already has some framework in place, based very much upon the original draft TAR. Using the air as infrastructure allows us to go higher, further and lighter than anyone else.
EASA may delegate the implementation of TAR to the national aviation authority of the nation in which the final assembly of any LTAV project takes place. CargoLifter offers unique and sophisticated solutions for lifting and transportation of goods on critical terrain and in remote areas by lighter-than-air (LTA) technology. Work to complete the TARs will continue when a sufficiently well funded project is in a position to need the regulations. Since 2004, the former CargoLifter airship hangar has been converted by a Malaysian company Tanjong into a leisure resort called Tropical Islands Resort. With the formation of the European Aviation Safety Authority (EASA), responsibility for the airworthiness requirements of airships designed or built in Europe was assumed by the new authority. Any further work to finalise the regulations was suspended after the collapse of Cargolifter. The finished draft - the Transport Airship Airworthiness Requirements (TAR) were issued in March 2000. They produced and circulated a document callled the Transport Airship Airworthiness Requirements, intended to be the legal requirements for any fully buoyant airship over a certain size, the purpose of which was transport of goods or passengers. A consultative committee was formed of several European and American CAA/FAA representatives and included delegates from the Airship Association Council. It s a very different type of disaster to Hindenburg, but it s still one from which reputational damage was done and lessons can be learnt. In 1999 the German Certification authorities at the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt began to prepare the regulatory framework for the Cargolifter project jointly with the Dutch CAA. The Skyship airship, which had been purchased by Cargolifter for training and research purposes, was sold to Swiss Skycruise and used in Athens for flights connected with the 2004 Olympic Games.
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