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No End In Sight To VIP TFRs

The practice of imposing airspace restrictions for major security events will only get worse during the election season.

By Kerry Lynch • Editor, AIN monthly magazine

October 15, 2015

Three years ago, NBAA faced one of the most difficult security scenarios to affect its convention. President Obama, hoping to make a last-minute appeal to Floridian voters before the November election, had planned to fly into Orlando on the eve of the late-October NBAA Convention. The event threatened to curtail access to Orlando Executive Airport–site of the static display for the convention–in the two days leading up to the big event.

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