Husch Blackwell's Aviation law team helps businesses take flight.
Our Aviation law team helps clients reach new heights with deep experience in aircraft- and aviation-related commercial transactions, regulatory compliance, tax, insurance, accident and product liability litigation, as well as intellectual property matters. We represent commercial and private business aviation clients such as commercial airlines, charter operators, aircraft management companies, FBOs, MROs, corporate flight departments, aircraft owners, lessors and financing parties, parts manufacturers, EMS operators, and airports.
The Aviation law team has deep experience involving aircraft acquisition, disposition, leasing, and financing transactions, ranging from fleetwide transactions involving hundreds of commercial aircraft and engines to individual private and business aircraft. In addition, our aviation law attorneys negotiate a variety of domestic and international commercial airline agreements such as in the areas of charter, cargo, procurement, tech ops, and sales and marketing.
The Aviation law team also provides guidance in matters involving the Department of Transportation (DOT) (including obtaining certificates of convenience and necessity), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and related regulatory agencies, and represents clients in aviation industry mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, aircraft engine campaigns, maintenance agreements, aircraft management and charter agreements, aircraft ownership and operational structures, aircraft refurbishment agreements, privacy data compliance, data monitoring agreements, airport, tax, and import/export issues. In addition to the foregoing, our Aviation attorneys advise on space law issues and includes a UAS group providing advice on matters involving unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).