The Alliance for Aviation Across America is highlighting the importance of general aviation to agriculture and rural communities.

Dan Hubbard, a board member for the alliance, is the senior vice president for communications with the National Business Aviation Association.

“A lot of businesses in agriculture rely on general aviation to operate from rural areas,” he says. “…with these small general aviation airplanes, you could fly out of 5,000 airports across the country, get the business done, and return.