Cactus Fly-In, Casa Grande AZ
There will be other small businesses fulfilling these niches thus a cost savings to the FBO (Fixed Based Operator. In airport business magazine in Feb there was an article discussing the plight of the FBO. In many cases such a strategy can save the FBO in increasing insurance costs. The FBOs are adjusting their strategic marketing plans to meet the financial challenges in general aviation. We are seeing a recovery in general aviation after many companies, especially FBO at smaller airports were forced out of business.
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Young Men Trying to Imitate the 9-11 Scenario, Part I
With a lease backed plane to an FBO an owner could also have the ITC-Investment Tax Credits on the purchase and then write off the payments. Others in his peer group and older people who understood his dreams to fly. At the airport he washed aircraft and he traded for pilots lessons. Yet the IRS came down on private pilots and aircraft owners for using it as a tax write off for fuel for their private planes. It takes a lot of aircraft washes to pay for fuel and instructor and a plane for an hour these days.
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