Aviation's Alphabet Mafia | EP 50

VREF | The Truth About the Aviation Market · Jul 31, 2026 · 28m · transcript

In this episode, we cover:

• What public IRS Form 990 filings reveal about executive compensation

• The reported compensation of the National Business Aviation Association’s president and CEO

• How additional compensation can appear separately from base compensation

• Why a reported multimillion-dollar salary matters in a year when the organization recorded a multimillion-dollar deficit

• How executive compensation grew over roughly a decade

• Why a single year may be an anomaly, but a decade represents policy

• What percentage of total organizational expenses went to named executives and…