{"id":732,"date":"2011-12-10T21:46:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T21:46:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-12-10T21:46:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T21:46:46","slug":"louisiana-governor-proclaims-december-general-aviation-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/louisiana\/louisiana-governor-proclaims-december-general-aviation-month\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Governor Proclaims December as General Aviation Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

 Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, proclaimed December 2011 as General Aviation Appreciation Month \"\"in Louisiana. The proclamation, signed December 1st, stated that the state of Louisiana has a significant interest in the continued vitality of general aviation, (GA) aerospace, aircraft manufacturing, educational institutions and aviation organizations.<\/p>\n

The proclamation stated that there are 74 airports serving 9,562 pilots and 4,891 general aviation aircraft in the state. GA contributes $2.05 billion to the state’s economy ranking it number 25 nationwide, but as a percentage of the state’s total GDP, Louisiana ranks 7th in the nation in terms of the importance of aviation to its economy.<\/div>\n
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GA employees 7,985 and plays a vital role in the State’s response to emergencies and natural disasters. Aerospace and aviation combined provide 11,000 jobs, resulting in a $416 million payroll. <\/div>\n

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 Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, proclaimed December 2011 as General Aviation Appreciation Month in Louisiana. The proclamation, signed December 1st, stated that the state of Louisiana has a significant interest in the continued vitality of general aviation, (GA) aerospace, aircraft manufacturing, educational institutions and aviation organizations. The proclamation stated that there are 74 airports serving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-louisiana","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\\wp-content\\uploads\/Louisiana Proclomationedit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}