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Firms ask for compensation for lost business during Obama visit

By Janice Wood · March 2, 2010 ·

Owners of several aviation firms in Hawaii say they want the federal government to compensate them $200,000 for lost business during President Barack Obama’s two-week holiday visit to Oahu in December, according to a recent AP report.

A temporary no-fly zone was in effect over parts of the island while Obama and his family were in a rented Kailua home. The zone barred flight operations inside a 10-mile area centered on Kailua. That put a crimp on air tours, flight instruction and other small-airplane operations in the area.

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Janice Wood is editor of General Aviation News.

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  1. Micke says

    March 3, 2010 at 10:22 am

    The “federal government to compensate them $200,000 for lost business ” that ME !my tax money! again and again or do WE vote against
    no-fly zone ?

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