Kirby Harrison is a freelance writer for The Weekly of Business Aviation, Business & Commercial Aviation and others in the Informa publishing chain. Harrison joined the Navy in 1962 and spent 20 years in the service, virtually all of it as a photojournalist, traveling from small islands in the South Pacific to Vietnam to the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon. When Harrison retired from the Navy, he went back to college and graduated in 1971 from Syracuse University with a Bachelor's Degree in Photojournalism. Along the way, he spent two years as a news photographer at the Daily Press & Times Herald in Newport News, Virginia, and three years working for Studio Sebe in Nice, France as a photographer. More recently, before retiring, he worked nearly 20 years for Naval Aviation News.
Along with its 10th birthday, the Isle of Man Aircraft Registry this year is also celebrating its award for Best Global Aviation Registry 2017 by the World Commerce Review, a business publication that covers the international marketplace from a cross border perspective.
Faced with continuing concerns such as rising taxes, lack of privacy and regulatory issues, business jet owners are opting for offshore aircraft registration.
The aim of the Cape Town Convention, said Colin Gill, deputy director of civil aviation for the Isle of Man, is to reduce the costs of raising financing for large, high-value, mobile assets that routinely cross borders.
