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Why Most Private Aircraft Operators Violate the FAA's Operating Rules

By David G. Mayer and David T. Norton

According to a recent Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation study on the business aircraft financing market, a high percentage of business aircraft operators do not comply with key provisions of Parts 91, 119 and 135 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs), conducting their flight operations by and through illegal “flight department companies” in violation of these Parts of the FARs. The study also says that few, if any, of those involved these operations intend to change their ways during the study period spanning this year through 2016. See http://bit.ly/1fFEeLg.

Although financiers include provisions in loan and lease documents that the lessee or borrower must comply with applicable law, do they perform audits or at least ask questions to assure that their customers pay attention to, or strictly comply with, these FARs? Do financiers fully appreciate the potentially serious consequences for them and their customers of an enforcement action against the operator, pilots and others by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)?

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