Jessica Reed is a writer and editor with AIN. She joined the team in the fall of 2023 after two years covering the aviation industry at Avionics International. She earned her bachelor&#039;s degree in English (Writing &amp; Rhetoric) from Pepperdine University. Her hometown is St. Louis, Missouri, and she since has resided in Santa Barbara, California, and Brooklyn, New York, among others. She is currently based in Philadelphia.

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Jessica Reed

Gary Garofalo, an aviation attorney whose more-than-five-decade career helped shape U.S. Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs) governing business aircraft operations, died on August 22. “Gary was the consummate attorney with an outsized passion for aviation,” said NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen. “His fingerprints are all over the [FARs] and the legal opinions that guide our industry.”
A longtime NBAA Tax Committee member, Garofalo served as chair for two years and later led the association’s Operational Excellence Strategic Focus Team, coordinating its Tax, Domestic Operations, and International Operators Committees.
He studied aeronautical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, earned a University of Virginia law degree in 1965, and joined the FAA’s legal staff, spending three years on licensing requirements, enforcement cases, airworthiness directives, and FAR interpretation. In 1972, he co-founded the Washington, D.C. firm known today as GGH Air Law, representing business aircraft owners and operators, FBOs, airlines, and more until his 2021 retirement.
Garofalo was also involved in the FAA’s Fractional Ownership Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC), whose recommendations produced Part 91 Subpart K, and served on the steering committee for the Part 125/135 ARC. He chaired the Air and Space Law Section of the Federal Bar Association’s Transportation Committee and was a founding member of the NTSB Bar Association.

News about bills, laws, regulations and other governmental decisions affecting aviation and aerospace. Topics include FAA re-authorizations, taxes on fuel and aviation activities, environmental legislation, ICAO decisions, governmental mediation of labor conflicts and World Trade Organization disputes and decisions.

Longtime Business Aviation Attorney Gary Garofalo Flies West

His career spanned more than five and a half decades

Gary Garofalo, aviation attorney whose long career helped shape the Federal Aviation Regulations governing business aircraft operations, died in August.

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The revision relaxes some provisions of the Corporate Transparency Act

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News and issues concerning general aviation, specifically airplanes and helicopters powered by piston and alternative engines (i.e., non-turbine powered aircraft). Subjects include aircraft, engines, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security and training.

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News and issues relating to international air transport and cargo carriers, national airlines and regional airlines, including aircraft, engines, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security and training.

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One favorable test after an emergent medical situation may not be enough to satisfy the FAA

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News and developments about airplanes, helicopters and unmanned air vehicles used in all varieties of operations, including airlines, military, business, commercial, general aviation and private.

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