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Private Luxury Jet Hangar Expansion at Hanscom Field

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The proposed development would:

  • Expand infrastructure for private luxury jets
    • Jet Hangar count by 4X
    • Jet Hangar square ft by 2.3X
  • Add 37 acres of pavement
  • Represent the largest single development in Hanscom’s history
  • Relieve current luxury jet capacity constraints at the airport
  • Respond to the planned growth of private luxury jets

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The largest private luxury Jet project known

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Chapter 8 of the Acts of 2021:��Next Generation Roadmap for Mass. Climate Policy

  • Net-Zero requirement by 2050
  • Every sector will have declining emissions requirements

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Nearby Towns Support the State Plan

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Hanscom Plan: Private Luxury Jet Emissions

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Jet hangar capacity vs time�including proposed project

Dramatic jet growth is clearly anticipated

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Calculating Hanscom Private Jet Emissions Today

  • 38,400 private jet operations per year (per Massport)
  • 2 hr estimated flight time
  • 330 gallons per hour (from aircraft tables)
  • 11.9 kg CO2 per gallon (basic chemistry)
  • 2 radiative forcing CO2e/CO2 for jet (per IPCC)
  • 610,000 Tons CO2e (product of above)

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Private Luxury Jets:�High Environmental Cost, Low Societal Benefit

  • Hanscom Jet emissions today cancel out nearly 50% of the GHG gains from all 4 GW of Solar PV ever installed in Massachusetts.
  • Hanscom emissions growth alone completely cancels out the 2050 climate gains of local communities
  • Services only a few individuals
  • Services primarily resort destinations (Wall St. Journal)

310 Tons CO2e per trip vs rural person in India .5 Tons per year.

Emissions from one private jet round trip to Asia = Emissions of an entire rural family in India over their entire lifetime

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Are private luxury jets necessary for the economy?

Most flights are to resort destinations

(Wall St Journal)

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Are private luxury jets necessary for the economy?

Most flights are to resort destinations

(Wall St Journal)

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Private Luxury Jets:�Benefit a few, subsidized by you

  • No sales tax on private jets, parts, or services (unlike your car)
  • No property tax on private jet facilities on Massport land
  • Tax laws provide major write-offs and tax breaks to incent jet ownership
  • State and local jet fuel tax prohibited by federal law*
  • Private jetports primarily paid for by commercial airline passengers (you)
  • 2023 FAA reauthorization bill proposes to provide federal dollars for private jet hangar construction.

*Local jet fuel excise tax for Hanscom was grandfathered under the federal law as pre-existing in 1984

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Is Low Carbon Aviation Coming?

  • Electric Aircraft
    • Only replaces small propeller aircraft (US Aviation Climate Plan)
    • No potential to replace jets by 2050
  • Sustainable Aviation Fuels (biofuel petroleum substitute)
    • Still emit the same or more CO2e
    • Growth of bio source theorized to absorb some CO2 (offsetting emissions)
    • Research shows little or negative CO2e lifecycle benefit
    • Bio sources inadequate to supply jet requirements
    • Depends on future unknown technology

There is no known low GHG substitute for jet fuel. Planning based on some unknown magic technology is irresponsible

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Effect of stopping this project on the luxury jet system

  • Hanscom is the largest private jetport in New England
  • Constraining Hanscom private luxury jet capacity, or reversing financial incentives, will make private flights inconvenient, with a direct effect on the entire system:
    • Current flights
    • Private jet purchases
    • Private jet production

Our policies have a ripple effect on emissions of the entire private luxury jet system

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Who Can Regulate or Control Private Jet Growth at the State Level?

  • Towns have no regulatory authority
  • The Legislature has no regulatory authority
  • Massport has no power once facilities are built
  • Limiting infrastructure is the only control our state has
  • Massport reports only to the Governor

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Past data indicates that hangar capacity will drive private jet flights

The Governor is the only option to stop this

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No Private Luxury Jet infrastructure capacity should be built anywhere because it is antithetical to Massachusetts and federal emissions plans

“We must protect all from the vandalism of a few”

Henry David Thoreau