GM Asks FAA to Hide Jets from Public Tracking

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GM Asks U.S. FAA to Bar Public Tracking of Leased Corporate Jet

By John Hughes and Elliot Blair Smith

Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp., criticized by U.S. lawmakers for its use of corporate jets, asked aviation regulators to block the public’s ability to track a plane it uses.

“We availed ourselves of the option as others do to have the aircraft removed” from a Federal Aviation Administration tracking service, a GM spokesman, Greg Martin, said yesterday in an interview. He declined to discuss why GM made the request.

Flight data show that the leased Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV jet flew Nov. 18 from Detroit to Washington, where Chief Executive Officer Richard Wagoner Jr. spoke to a Senate committee that day and a House panel the next day on behalf of a $25 billion auto-industry rescue plan. [Full Article]

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Any private operator can do that, so it's not a big deal. But it's not as if people won't know that their aircraft moved anyway (spotters, pictures, etc.).

Lets fly to DC in our G-IV to petition for bail out money. Ingenius if you ask me....

That was a dumb move to do that right now. Or is it just arrogance?

They're hopeless. Let them go out of business and China can buy them. Why stop now?

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