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However, due to its complexity and high safety standards, aircraft decontamination is limited to manual surface disinfection, and an approved method for disinfecting otherwise inaccessible areas is still unavailable. To address this issue, we present the development and validation of an effective room disinfection method utilizing low concentrations of aerosolized peroxyacetic acid (aPAA), stabilized by hydrogen peroxide, known as \u201cdry fog.\u201d Therefore, we determined the minimal effective antimicrobial concentration of aPAA for a wide range of agents, including bacteria, viruses, and bacterial endospores. Then, we applied the developed disinfection protocol to a large panel of relevant materials multiple times in the context of the official material compatibility tests (MCTs) requested by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to demonstrate that its application will not cause a negative effect on the aircraft airworthiness. After successfully passing these complex material compatibility tests, we finally validated the disinfection protocol within a narrow-body aircraft A320 for its antimicrobial efficacy by using the most resistant microorganisms to aPAA among our test organisms, the bacteriophage MS2, and spores of\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Geobacillus stearothermophilus<\/jats:italic>\n                      . 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