For Cessna Mustang owner Jeff Greenberg, NBAA’s 62nd Annual Meeting & Convention just wasn’t long enough. Attracted to the event held last month in Orlando by NBAA’s more than 1,000 exhibitors and the Light Business Airplane Conference sessions, Greenberg said he really wished the show lasted one more day.
National Business Aviation Association
October 22, 2009 - 9:36am
NBAA and AOPA said yesterday they will co-host a series of Light Business Airplane (LBA) conferences starting next year. Two LBA conferences will be held in 2010, the first in conjunction with the NBAA Convention in Atlanta next October and the second at AOPA’s Aviation Summit in Long Beach, Calif., the following month.
October 22, 2009 - 7:09am
Mid-show through this year’s NBAA Convention, the general mood, at least among exhibitors, was one of both cautious optimism and lowered expectations.
October 20, 2009 - 5:31pm
It would have been impossible to open the 62nd NBAA Convention without squaring off with the 500-pound economic gorilla in the room. NBAA president Ed Bolen didn’t mince words: “Ladies and gentlemen, it’s been quite a year.”
October 20, 2009 - 4:35pm
Yesterday during the NBAA Awards Luncheon, Olivier Dassault accepted the NBAA Meritorious Service to Aviation Award for his father, Serge, who wasn’t able to attend due to other business in Europe. The elder Dassault was chosen for NBAA’s most distinguished honor because he is “one of the most innovative leaders in business aviation,” according to NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen. Serge is currently chairman and CEO of Dassault Group.
October 20, 2009 - 10:37am
It would have been next to impossible to open the 62nd NBAA Convention this morning in Orlando, Fla., without squarely aiming at the 800-pound gorilla in the room: the state of the U.S. economy. NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen didn’t mince words, saying, “Ladies and gentlemen, it’s been quite a year.” FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt also talked about the need for a safety management system to take aviation safety to the next level.
October 19, 2009 - 1:51pm
Recent negative portrayals of business aviation are inconsistent with the true nature of the industry, according to a poll released by NBAA and the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA).
October 15, 2009 - 12:09pm
The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) and NBAA today released a new survey showing that recent portrayals of business aviation as mainly “fat cats” flying in large-cabin jets are inaccurate.
October 15, 2009 - 12:08pm
The NBAA Convention exhibitor count has grown to more than 1,000 companies showing their products and services at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla., and more than 100 aircraft are expected to be on static display at Orlando Executive Airport during the show next Tuesday through Thursday.
October 14, 2009 - 12:13pm
“Interesting” is perhaps an understated word to use in reviewing the tumultuous recent period the business aviation community has gone through, but that is the word outgoing NBAA chairman Jeff Lee chose to describe his two-year tenure, which ends at this year’s annual meeting. Lee, IBM’s director of flight operations, took over the post from Ken Emerick in 2007 and has led the board through several stiff challenges to business aviation.
