On October 19th through the 22nd the National Business Aviation Association held its 63rd Annual Meeting and Convention in Atlanta, Georgia at the Georgia World Congress Center with a Static Display of Aircraft at DeKalb Peachtree Airport. Although business aviation has had a very challenging year, the NBAA convention was successful and well attended. There were 1,083 exhibitors in the convention hall and 93 aircraft in the sold-out Static Display of Aircraft at DeKalb Peachtree Airport.

Leading Edge Aviation Solutions had two client aircraft in the Static Display—a 2009 Falcon 2000EX EASy and a 2006 Challenger 604. Both of these for sale aircraft had excellent exposure at the NBAA show which is the world’s largest civil aviation trade show.

The downtrend in the business aviation market has slowly improved over the last two years. It was October 2008 at the time of the 2008 NBAA convention that Wall Street took its big tumble followed by some other world markets. We are all hopeful that this improving trend of business aviation will continue through the rest of 2010 and into 2011. People and companies are more optimistic and forward-looking.

Pictured at left: the Leading Edge static display exhibit with one of two client aircraft presented by Leading Edge during the event.