The FAA's newly proposed limitation ignores the legitimate need for the Block Aircraft Registration Request (BARR) Program, and runs directly counter to long-established assumptions about government's role in the protection of privacy. Among the concerns held by NBAA and its Members are the following:

• The proposal is fundamentally inconsistent with government’s long-established obligation to protect privacy, not to compromise it.
  
• The FAA has failed to advance any affirmative public policy rationale for the proposal; the agency doesn't explain what problem it is trying to solve.
  
• The proposed requirement to prove a “Valid Security Concern” establishes an unjustifiably high bar even to individuals and companies that do have legitimate security concerns.
  
• The proposal utterly fails to acknowledge the vital interest that companies may have, beyond traditional notions of privacy, in blocking public access to information about their corporate flights.
• The proposal, if implemented, would create a huge administrative burden to both operators/owners and the FAA without offering any discernible benefit.

Join this free webinar and learn about the proposal, how it may affect you, and how to respond to the FAA's proposal on or before April 4, 2011.