Corporate Jet Tax Gets Six Obama Mentions, Nicks Deficit
By Richard Rubin and Andrew Zajac June 30 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obamas proposal to end a tax break for corporate jet owners, a repeated refrain in his news conference yesterday, would...
View ArticleLeather Firm Fears Hit From Jet Write-Off Loss
JIM McGUIREGazette Reporter One of the few bright spots in what remains of the local leather industry is aviation upholstery, and officials of a Johnstown company that employs more than 100 people...
View ArticleIndustry Set For Fight To Keep Corporate Jet Tax Breaks
By ERIC LICHTBLAU WASHINGTON President Obama used to like corporate jets. As a senator in 2005, he crisscrossed the country in them nine times to attend fund-raisers and other events, reimbursing the...
View ArticleAircraft Makers Defend Tax Break
By Jeremiah McWilliams The manufacturers of business aircraft aren't happy in the spotlight President Barack Obama recently turned on them. During a taut news conference June 29, Obama pointed to...
View ArticleNY Aviation Economic Impact Huge According To Study
ALBANY, NY -- A newly released study of New York airports and the aviation industry's contribution to the State's economy found that $50 billion in annual economic activity for New York State...
View ArticleCorporate Jet Tax Hike Hits Ailing Plane Makers
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama aims at corporate fat cats when he calls for a tax increase on companies that own private jets. But he hits an American manufacturing industry that is just...
View ArticlePrivate-Jet Firms Adapt To Turbulent Times
By Marla Matzer Rose Despite economic hurdles for private aviation, NetJets is proceeding with construction of a $21 million headquarters at Port Columbus. The bumpy road to recovery for...
View ArticleFlight of Hypocrisy
Letter to the EditorSunday, July 24, 2011 Recently, President Obama gave a speech regarding the critical role of manufacturing jobs. He stood at an Alcoa aerospace aluminum-manufacturing facility and...
View ArticleFirst Six Months Of Year Prove Difficult For GA Manufacturers
By Mike Mitchell August 8, 2011 - The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) released the shipment and billings figures for the first half of the year. In the first six months of 2011, total...
View ArticleBusiness Jet Defenders Try To Send Obama A Message
By Ryan J. Foley CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa Leaders of the corporate aircraft industry used a carefully orchestrated rally Wednesday to try to send a message to the White House to stop picking on their...
View ArticleAviation Manufacturers Counter Obama Visit to Iowa To Talk Up Corporate Jets
By Keith Laing A day after President Obama visited Iowa, the makers of the corporate jets that have been the butt of frequent criticism recently by the president held a rally of their own in the key...
View ArticleHundreds gather At GA Rally In Iowa
Hundreds of workers, state and local officials and aviation enthusiasts gathered Wednesday in Cedar Rapids for a GA rally. The event, held at the Rockwell Collins Flight Operations Center, was...
View ArticleRecognize Value Of Regional Airports
The aviation community commends Gov. Pat Quinns recent declaration recognizing the importance of general aviation and its vital role in Illinois. At Chicago Executive Airport, we believe the...
View ArticleFlying Is Effective For Business, So Back Off The Vilification
By: Tom Coble From Tom Coble, CEO of Coble Trench Safety in Greensboro and winner of the 2011 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Carolinas: As the president and lawmakers return...
View ArticleCorporate Jet Owners Hit Back At Obama
Corporate jet owners are fighting back at President Obama, who has made them a poster child for tax reform. The Alliance for Aviation Across America, which represents non-commercial business aviation,...
View ArticleGOP: Obama's Anti-Corporate Jet Talk Is Killing Aviation
By Pete Kasperowicz Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) on Wednesday said President Obama's repeated calls for higher taxes on corporate executives who use corporate jets is killing the U.S. general aviation...
View ArticleTaxes On General Aviation Would Hurt Small Business
By Selena Shilad, Executive Director of the Alliance for Aviation Across America The Hills GOP: Obamas anti-corporate jet talk is killing aviation (Sept. 21) article rightly highlighted the greatly...
View ArticleObama Deficit Plan Subject Of Aviation Dispute
The general aviation community is in an uproar over the Obama administration's inclusion of a $100 user fee as part of a larger deficit reduction plan. The discontent centers on several paragraphs in...
View ArticleOp-ed: Elevating General Aviation to New Heights in Virginia
Since the early days of flight, when the Wright Brothers built and flew the worlds first Military Airplane at Fort Myer, Virginia in 1908, aviation and our local airports have been an important part...
View Article'No Plane, No Gain' Goes Local
Starlink Aviation vice president of sales and marketing Brenda Libby and Charlie Bravo Aviation CEO René Banglesdorf have partnered with NBAA and the No Plane, No Gain advocacy campaign to launch a...
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