Iconic Images, Contemporary Message Featured in New NBAA Advertisements

July 15, 2015

A new series of NBAA print advertisements utilizes images of iconic figures from the earliest days of aviation to highlight the Association’s efforts in addressing the regulatory, legislative operational and other challenges facing the modern business aviation community.

One ad features the well-known photograph of Charles A. Lindbergh standing with his Ryan NYP monoplane, “Spirit of St. Louis,” just 10 days after his record-setting 1927 solo flight from New York to Paris.

Other advertisements feature similar images of famed polar explorer Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd (“He flew through fog almost as thick as an FAA regulations book”) and Stephen MacGordon, an early aviation record holder and one of the industry’s first instructors at the Curtiss Flying School.

View the NBAA ad featuring Charles Lindbergh. (PDF)

View the NBAA ad featuring Richard E. Byrd. (PDF)

View the NBAA ad featuring Stephen MacGordon (PDF)

All three ads conclude with a link to NBAA’s Membership application, www.nbaa.org/join, where members of today’s aviation community may sign up to help NBAA preserve business aviation. The ads also include key taglines, highlighting NBAA’s role in supporting the industry.

• Because business aviation enables economic growth. And at NBAA, we enable business aviation.
• Because aviation enables people to reach places they otherwise couldn’t. And at NBAA, we enable business aviation.
• Business aviation enables greater potential. And at NBAA, we enable business aviation.

“Many parallels may be drawn between the challenges faced by aviation’s pioneers to the regulatory environment faced by business aviation operators today,” noted NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen. “In much the same way these inspirational aviators helped chart the course to our modern aviation system, NBAA serves our Members in continuing to establish a safe and unencumbered path towards our industry’s future.”

The new advertisements will debut in the July 2015 issues of several industry trade publications, and will also be featured in displays at the NBAA tent during EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2015 later this month. The new advertisements will also be seen at NBAA’s Regional Forum in St. Louis, MO on Sept. 17, and on banners throughout NBAA’s upcoming Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA2015) taking place Nov. 17 to 19 in Las Vegas, NV.