While politicians are not suggesting such a draconian scenario, consider the consequences of grounding business jets and other General Aviation aircraft.
The schedule works exactly as policymakers intended with no individual or company able to depreciate more for a general aviation aircraft than any other capital asset.
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Everyone in our nation even those who never ride on an airliner or go aloft in a General Aviation aircraft benefit from a safe and efficient air transportation system.
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Founded in 1947 and based in Washington, DC, the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) is the leading organization for companies that rely on general aviation aircraft to help make their businesses more efficient, productive and successful.
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General aviation aircraft flying into or out of three airfields in the DC area -- Potomac Airfield, Hyde Field and College Park Airport -- will be required to stop at Tipton Airfield in Tipton, Maryland, to be screened by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
The closures will impact services for commercial, general aviation, and military aircraft.
Since then I have had the pleasure of flying a wide variety of general aviation, business and WWII vintage aircraft and helicopters.
Today, pilots in the commercial, business aviation and general aviation arena have to physically be in their aircraft from Point A all the way to Point B.
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, representing general aviation pilots, said the Chicago no-fly zone did not pose a significant inconvenience on planes or private-use airports.
Boeing made a modest advance after news of a large aircraft order from the aviation leasing subsidiary of General Electric.
Arun Mishra, India's director general of civil aviation, said only two of the 17 repossessed aircraft have received airworthiness certificates, which allow them to be flown out of the country.
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On Tuesday, the government run Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) ordered lessors with unpaid Kingfisher debt to confiscate 15 aircraft, most of them Airbuses.
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On the first day of the trial, Aminullah Chaudhry, who was Pakistan's civil aviation chief under Mr Sharif, said he had been instructed not to let General Musharraf's aircraft land anywhere in Pakistan.
Cartersville Airport, a general aviation airport about 15 miles (24 km) north with a much shorter runway intended for light aircraft was considered, but it was behind the aircraft and now out of reach.
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