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General Aviation Rallies To Burnish Its Image

General Aviation Manufacturers Association president and CEO Pete Bunce says recent general aviation rallies held following disparaging remarks about busin

General Aviation Manufacturers Association president and CEO Pete Bunce

By AIN Staff • AIN Staff

October 8, 2011

General Aviation Manufacturers Association president and CEO Pete Bunce says recent general aviation rallies held following disparaging remarks about business aviation by President Obama actually go back to the end of 2008 when the CEOs from the Big Three automakers took separate company airplanes to testify before Congress.

“When the auto execs came to town and we had the debacle of them when they failed to answer questions posed to them by Congress about the use of corporate jets,” he recalled, “that snowballed. And then we had a lot of politicians, the President [Obama] included as he took office, who started bashing corporate jets.”

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