AVIATION HAS FUTURE

Jack J. Pelton is the current Chairman and CEO of the Experimental Aircraft Association, better known as EAA, which congregates at least 200,000 members in the United States. It is the world’s largest and main entity dedicated to experimental aviation. Pelton has wide experience in aviation. He worked for over two decades at McDonnell Douglas, before entering the Textron group, where he took over the position of Cessna CEO. In March 2008, the then governess of Kansas, Kathleen Sebelius, appointed Pelton for the Consulting Group of Energy and Environmental Policies of Kansas. Pelton was pensioned in 2011 and, in the following year, was appointed as Chairman of EAA. One of his challenges within the entity is maintaining the development of experimental aviation, supporting the authorities in the creation of more suitable norms for the sector and increasing the public interest for the aviation. Annually, the EAA promotes the Air Venture, in Oshkosh, which is the world’s largest aviation meeting. The fair brings together over 10,000 aircrafts, from small planes designed by their owners