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Legal Challenge to TSA’s BizAv Security

From Aviation Week:

TSA BizAv Security To Face Legal Challenge

Feb 23, 2009

William Garvey

A private aircraft operator in the Northeast is seeking co-signatories for a legal challenge to the Transportation Safety Administration’s (TSA) plan to impose new security procedures involving FAR91 aircraft weighing 12,500 lb and more.

The brief from Bruce Rose, CEO of Carrington Capital of Greenwich Conn., the parent firm of Peregrine Jet LLC, its three-aircraft flight department, contends that Congress never gave TSA the authority to institute the so-called Large Aircraft Security Plan (LASP). Rather, it says the Congress rejected such a program for private aircraft and instead simply directed TSA to “transmit a report on airspace and other security measures that can be deployed, as necessary, to improve general aviation security.” . . . [Full Story]