NBAA adds event for small aircraft operators
As the annual NBAA Convention gets ever larger, so too grows the perception that the event tends to focus on and attract operators of larger business aircr

As the annual NBAA Convention gets ever larger, so too grows the perception that the event tends to focus on and attract operators of larger business aircraft. This perception is driven perhaps partially by the high number of association committee and board volunteers who hail from large aircraft operators.

To address the needs of the association’s majority of members–60 percent, or about 8,000 members– that have a single-aircraft flight department, NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen announced last month at the Sun ’n’ Fun Fly-In in Lakeland, Fla., a new three-day industry event dedicated to operators who use “light airplanes” for business travel. Some observers have questioned the wisdom of labeling the operator of a lone King Air 350 or VLJ as a “light airplane” operator.