Business Aviation
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Overview
Our Aviation & Aerospace practice encompasses the full range of issues impacting business aircraft owners and operators. Business aviation transactions and the resulting legal issues they generate are often complex. Our team’s extensive experience advising on business aviation aircraft operations enables us to deliver strategic, informed guidance for both new market entrants and long-term industry participants.
We represent a broad client base, including individual owners of personal aircraft, fractional ownership and management companies, corporate flight departments, and major charter operators. Regardless of the scale or complexity of the operation, we guide clients across all aspects of legal arrangements and obligations encountered by business aircraft operators, owners, charter companies, management companies, and fixed-base operators.
We help our clients successfully navigate the complex and sometimes arcane legal and regulatory framework governing business aviation, drawing on our robust industry knowledge of regulatory compliance issues, operational demands, and business transactional requirements. We advise on matters involving FAA, DOT, TSA, NTSB, IRS, HAZMAT regulations, as well as state tax issues affecting aircraft operations. We also work closely with clients to structure their aircraft transactions and operations to ensure compliance with applicable regulations.
We regularly advise clients on:
- Airport access
- Completion agreements for large aircraft modifications
- Complex ownership and operating structures for aircraft with multiple owners
- International operations, licensing, and enforcement
- Lease transactions
- Maintenance and repair
- Management arrangements
- Noise restriction issues
- Personal use of company aircraft
- Personnel requirements
- Purchase and lease of hangars
- Purchase, sale, and lease transactions
- Reimbursable costs for Part 91 operators
- Regulatory requirements
- Security
- State sales and use tax
Experience
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Provide recurring advice to owners and operators on the purchase, sale, and lease of business aircraft.
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Advise on personal use of company aircraft and related tax and SEC disclosure issues.
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Negotiate contracts for maintenance and managed maintenance activities for a variety of corporate aviation operators.
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For corporate flight departments, operators, and FBOs, conduct compliance audits, revised operational manuals, and developed emergency response plans.
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Negotiate completion agreements for large-aircraft VVIP-level modifications and manage completion, testing, and certification activities.
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Advise on negotiations with engine manufacturers over purchase, lease, and long-term maintenance agreements.
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Advise on flight crew retention, qualification, and compliance issues.
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