1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Safe Aviation and Flight Enhancement Act of 2023 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Flight data recorder (referred to in this Act as an FDR ) data and cockpit voice recorder (referred to in this Act as a CVR ) data, often referred to as black box data, on commercial passenger aircraft is crucial in all aircraft crash investigations, providing vital information to determine the cause of an accident and to prevent future recurrences. (2) Underwater locating device (referred to in this Act as a ULD ) beacons generate a low operating frequency to increase signal detection range and improve signal transmissibility through aircraft structures to aid in the identification of aircraft wreckage. Airframe-mounted ULDs with a minimum operating life of 90 days will improve the underwater search for aircraft wreckage. (3) Aircraft equipped with a tamper-resistant method to broadcast to a ground station sufficient information to establish the location within 6 nautical miles (referred to in this Act as nm ) of where an aircraft terminates flight will facilitate a quicker identification of an accident location, a faster search and rescue response, and a more effective search effort in remote locations and overwater accidents. Use of an emergency locator transmitter (referred to in this Act as an ELT ), whether as a stand-alone unit or as part of an automatic deployable flight recorder, can transmit the location of an accident and provide a homing capability for search and rescue personnel. In addition, more frequent broadcasts from data link communication systems are capable of reporting an aircraft’s position every minute to reduce the search area to a radius of less than 6 nm. (4) As the aviation environment grows more complex, to include a surge in air traffic, the integration of new manned and unmanned aerial and space vehicle activity, an increasingly dynamic national security environment, and the growth of extended overwater and remote location flight routes, it is