Letter From Dirk Ellis

Dave:

Thank you for covering so well Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton’s signing of legislation to change the aircraft registration fee and taxes on aviation fuel, parts and labor. This legislation is promising. It did appear that general aviation was on the brink of no return. However, I would like to see more support by the airlines for reliever and municipal airports.

Minnesota’s general aviation and the outlying airports are a big part of the infrastructure of the major airlines and MSP (Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport). This is more true today than in the past due to the simple fact that essentially general aviation no longer has access to MSP. This could be a good thing for the airlines, but the question remains, how far do we go with subsidizing the infrastructure of the airlines before it negatively affects general aviation? To make the system work, we all need to give a little of what we want, so others can have a little of what they want, and in the end, we all have more to give.

Dirk Ellis
Engineering Administrator
Tanis Aircraft Products
Flying Cloud Airport, Eden Prairie, Minn.

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