Katrina Bradshaw, NBAA’s vice president of static displays and forums, said the association realized early in the planning process for this year’s show that they were running out of parking spaces for the static display at Henderson Executive Airport just seven miles south of Las Vegas’s McCarran International. “At Orlando, we have much more space,” she said, adding that, fortunately, the approval for the extra spots needed to accommodate 74 aircraft came through without a hitch. In an innovative move, this year the association is hosting an additional display of 14 aircraft outside the Las Vegas Convention Center, as well as to the usual complement of aircraft brought inside the facility for the event.
Bradshaw said the static displays have always been a huge draw for the show, even during lean economic times. “Sixty percent of the people who attend the show head for the static displays,” where a considerable amount of buying and selling takes place, she said.
