Jim Bennett, Starbucks aviation manager in Seattle and president of the Pacific Northwest Business Aviation Association, offers some organizational guidelines: Define your target constituency. In the case of the PNBAA, we focused primarily on corporate flight operations and those who support the business: service providers, insurers, law firms, FBOs, FAR Part 135 operators, charter/management companies, repair stations and OEMs. Our members are from Washington, Oregon and British Columbia.

International operators accessing services of the far-flung ExecuJet Aviation Group may not realize that the multinational business aviation support company originated in South Africa.

Vector Aerospace Corp. completed acquisition in December 2009 of a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A maintenance and overhaul facility in Johannesburg, further expanding the Toronto-headquartered MRO firm’s operations in South Africa.