Regulations and Government
FAA mulled $100M deal for Tag/AMI
The FAA considered trying to extract $100 million from Tag Aviation during its investigation of the firm in 2007 before revoking the charter company’s oper

The FAA considered trying to extract $100 million from Tag Aviation during its investigation of the firm in 2007 before revoking the charter company’s operating certificate on Oct. 12, 2007, the agency recently confirmed.

At a meeting of the Pacific Northwest Business Aviation Association and Pacific Rim Schedulers & Dispatchers Association at the Museum of Flight in Seattle on November 12, former AMI Jet Charter chairman and CEO Chuck McLeran for the first time publicly revealed the FAA’s attempt to settle for a $100 million payment and other concessions. That revelation and others were part of a two-and-a-half-hour recap by McLeran of how the FAA spent seven months investigating what it said was an unsafe charter operator and then revoked AMI’s charter certificate.

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