“We’re on a mission to foster an environment that allows business aviation to thrive in the United States and around the world,” said NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen this morning during the opening session of the organization’s Northeastern Regional Forum at New York’s Westchester County Airport (KHPN). “We like to tell the world business aviation is a great industry, one that needs to be fostered, not impeded.”
Bolen noted that one of the organization’s key tenets is “safety first, safety always,” and as such, it has pushed for legislation that encompasses the NTSB safety recommendations following last year’s tragic midair accident in the skies over the nation’s capital. NBAA has worked to lobby the House and the Senate to move bills in both chambers of Congress to advance those recommendations. “I can’t think of a more lasting tribute to those people who lost their lives in the accident than for our country to respond with safety enhancements,” he told the audience gathered in the show presentation area of host FBO Million Air’s 52,000-sq-ft community hangar.
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