Corporate Plane Tax Breaks

Recently, our esteemed President floated another one of his brainy ideas. This time it was in a speech about the debt ceiling “crisis”. His plan is to raise taxes, by disallowing the deduction, on corporations that purchase aircraft for business use. Looking at it from a purely “soak the rich” point of view, it makes [...]

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Partly Cloudy

Clouds are very familiar to the aviation community. Cloud also is a “noun metaphor” used for the Internet. Information Technology (IT and at least the immediate entity known to me) has transitioned the noun into an acting verb cliche known as “cloud computing”.

Cloud computing basically uses web-based software browsing access to an application on [...]

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Grandparents Camp

Special Services was recently given another opportunity to help expose a group of kids, their parents and grandparents to the fun, freedom and business of aviation.

A local community has put together an annual summer camp for the visiting grandkids of their residents. We happen to be associated with one of the residents and help [...]

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Business Aviation Works

Business aviation plays a vital role for citizens, companies and communities across the U.S. The industry is vital to the national economic interest, generating over a million jobs, providing a lifeline to communities with little or no airline service, helping thousands of businesses of all sizes to be more productive and efficient, and providing emergency [...]

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