Tue, Oct 06, 2009
Business Aviation Advocate On The Program For The Opening
General Session
The NBAA announced Monday that Tom
Buffenbarger, international president of the International
Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), will be a
featured speaker at the Opening General Session for NBAA's 62nd
Annual Meeting & Convention (NBAA2009).
The IAM is among the largest industrial trade unions in North
America, representing nearly 700,000 active and retired members in
dozens of industries, including workers employed in business
aircraft manufacture. In his capacity as president, Buffenbarger
often relies on a Learjet 60, built by IAM members in Wichita, KS,
to meet his transportation needs.
"As NBAA Members know, business aviation helps generate over one
million jobs, many of which are in aircraft manufacturing," said
NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen. "We are excited that Tom
Buffenbarger will speak at our Convention, because he can speak not
only to the value of the business aviation manufacturing sector to
the nation's economic interest, but also to the essential role
IAM's airplane serves in increasing the union's effectiveness and
decreasing its costs. We look forward to hearing his perspectives
on the importance of business aviation as both a job base for our
country, and a productivity multiplier for organizations like
his."
"Few industries are as critical to the nation's economic
well-being as the business aviation industry," said Buffenbarger.
"Each successive generation of aircraft is driven by technologies
and innovations that directly and indirectly support millions of
jobs and the kind of high value economic activity which we simply
cannot afford to lose."
Tom Buffenbarger
The role of business aviation in supporting 1.2 million jobs in
the U.S. is a central theme of the No Plane No Gain campaign, which
is jointly sponsored by NBAA and the General Aviation Manufacturers
Association. Buffenbarger and other Convention speakers will
highlight the messages put forward by No Plane No Gain to educate
policymakers and opinion leaders about the many ways business
aviation serves citizens, companies and communities across
America.
Buffenbarger invited President Obama to visit Wichita to see
first-hand the importance of the business aviation industry when
the two met at the AFL-CIO's annual convention in Pittsburgh,
PA.
Joining Buffenbarger for the Convention's Opening General Session
will be golf legend and esteemed businessman Arnold Palmer, who
relies on his Cessna Citation X to conduct business from his
hometown of Latrobe, PA; Forbes Magazine publisher Rich Karlgaard,
who owns and pilots a Cirrus SR22 for business; and FAA
Administrator and veteran pilot Randy Babbitt.
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