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NBAA Joins ChevronTexaco Global Aviation and B/CA as "Corporate Angel Award" Co-Sponsors

White Plains, NY (October 7, 2003)-Corporate Angel Network (CAN), a national public charity that serves cancer patients by arranging free transportation to treatment using empty seats on routine corporate flights, announced today that NBAA will join ChevronTexaco Global Aviation and Business & Commercial Aviation (B/CA) magazine in sponsoring the Corporate Angel Award.

ChevronTexaco Global Aviation, BC/A, and now NBAA co-sponsor the Corporate Angel Award, a quarterly tribute to corporations and their flight departments that have demonstrated outstanding dedication as participants in Corporate Angel Network. The award recipient is recognized with a plaque, a full-page ad in Business & Commercial Aviation magazine and $2,500 worth of ChevronTexaco aviation fuel. The net proceeds from the ads are generously donated the to Corporate Angel Network.

"NBAA has been a strong supporter of Corporate Angel Network for many years" said Peter Fleiss of Corporate Angel Network. "We are extremely pleased that Shelley Longmuir has chosen to extend that support in a manner that brings awareness to our mission and rewards participating corporations and their flight departments who generously offer their empty seats to our cancer patients."

The most recent Corporate Angel Award was presented to ConocoPhillips this month. Previous recipients include Limited Brands, Corning, Ford, The 401K Company, Verizon, Wyeth, International Paper, Schering-Plough, and Dow Chemical.

Founded in 1981, Corporate Angel Network (www.CorpAngelNetwork.org) now includes 500 participating corporations, along with a team of 60 part-time volunteers and six paid staff who work with patients, physicians, corporate flight departments and leading treatment centers to coordinate medical travel needs of cancer patients. To date, Corporate Angel Network has arranged more than 17,000 flights, and currently provides about 160 patient flights per month.

Part of the Aviation Week Group, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Business & Commercial Aviation is the best read, most trusted publication dedicated to serving people who use aircraft in their business. Since 1958, B/CA has been the world's premier source of business aviation operational information and "how-to" features -- emphasizing safety, efficiency and the effective use of business aircraft.

NBAA represents the aviation interests of more than 7,300 companies that own or operate general aviation aircraft as an aid to the conduct of their business, or are involved with business aviation. NBAA Member Companies earn annual revenues approaching $5 trillion - a number that is about half the gross domestic product - and employ more than 19 million people worldwide.

Photo Caption (left to right): ChevronTexaco Global Aviation's Keith Sawyer (Business Development Manager) and Dale Anderson (General Manager), Corporate Angel Network's Peter Fleiss, NBAA's Shelley Longmuir (President), Corporate Angel Network's Randy Greene (Chairman), ChevronTexaco Global Aviation's John Digby (President), AviationWeeks Ken Gazola (Executive Vice President).

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