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In July of 2014 NAAA reported that we had submitted a First Draft Proposal to suggest changes to the National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA’s) Standard 407 For Aircraft Fuel Servicing which set a policy against hot-fueling. Many of NAAA's proposed changes to allow the practice in the ag aviation industry...

Regardless of whether or not it is a self-authored sobriquet, the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual AirVenture held in Oshkosh, Wis. truly is the “world’s greatest aviation celebration,” and NAAA representatives exhibiting from July 25-31 and can attest to this slogan. "More than 10,000 airplanes probably more than a half million”...

Fifteen years ago, this month, the unprecedented terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, triggered a series of actions that pushed the agricultural aviation industry and the National Agricultural Aviation Association to the limit. The importance of having a strong national association could not be any more evident than amid those...

After years of tireless work, NAAA is happy to announce that we’ve secured tower marking requirements and an FAA tower database for towers between 50 and 200 feet. These measures are included in a bill signed by President Obama on July 15 that will extend the FAA’s funding authority through...

ALEXANDRIA, VA — May 24, 2016 — The House of Representatives today passed H.R. 897, the Zika Vector Control Act, giving professional, small aerial application businesses the confidence they need to combat disease-carrying mosquitoes, including the public health threatening Zika virus. The Zika Vector Control Act would allow applicators to...

“Upon the Performance of Each Rests the Fate of All.” If you’ve ever attended the PAASS Program at a state convention, then you have heard those words uttered more than once. NAAA and its sister organization NAAREF take that motto seriously and ag pilots should too, particularly now that the...