Contact: Dan Hubbard at (202) 783-9360 or dhubbard@nbaa.org
ORLANDO, FL, October 18, 2006 – Attendance at the National Business Aviation Association’s (NBAA’s) 59th Annual Meeting & Convention (NBAA2006), being held this week in Orlando, reached 31,919 by midday on the second day of the show. This second-day total is already more than 10 percent higher than the final, three-day total for the 2005 show, also held in Orlando, and it surpasses the previous attendance record for the show, which was 31,665 in Las Vegas in 1998. The final 2006 attendance tally will be announced after the close of the show on Thursday, October 19.# #\t#
Founded in 1947, NBAA serves more than 7,000 Member Companies by promoting the aviation interests of organizations utilizing business aircraft in the United States and worldwide. The association provides more than 100 products and services to the business aviation community, including the NBAA Annual Meeting & Convention, the world’s largest civil aviation trade show. Learn more about NBAA at www.nbaa.org.
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