WASHINGTON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation

Administration plans to propose changes to speed certification

of new commercial airplanes, the Trump administration said in a

notice on Thursday.

The FAA said it plans to propose by December changes "to

modernize certain certification standards for transport category

airplanes and propulsion systems." It said the effort will be

deregulatory by reducing the number of "exemptions, special

conditions, and equivalent level of safety findings required

during the certification process."

The previous head of the FAA, Mike Whitaker, told Reuters in

December the agency wanted to streamline aircraft certification.