Posted on 02/16/2023 9:01:23 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry's family quietly sold their private jet to a New York-based hedge fund following intense criticism of the plane's carbon footprint in light of Kerry's work fighting global warming.
The Kerry family's private jet, a Gulfstream GIV-SP, is no longer owned by his family's charter firm Flying Squirrel LLC., according to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) registration information reviewed by Fox News Digital.
In financial filings submitted since joining the Biden administration, Kerry had reported that his wife Teresa Heinz-Kerry owned a stake worth more than $1 million in the firm.
The plane's registered owner is now listed as AV Aviation LLC., a small firm based at the Waterbury-Oxford Airport in Connecticut. Documents filed with the Connecticut state government shows that AC Aviation is a subsidiary of the New York City hedge fund AC Investment Management which specializes in renewable energy and clean technology investments and manages funds worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
FAA filings suggest that the plane was transferred from Flying Squirrel to AC Aviation on Aug. 22. Four days later, an individual named Yvonne Rivera requested the FAA place an industry-level Limiting Aircraft Data Displayed (LADD) on the aircraft to block it from being publicly tracked, according to information obtained by Fox News Digital via Freedom of Information Act.
However, the plane, which most recently flew from Connecticut to Los Angeles this week, is still trackable.
"Secretary Kerry travels commercially in his role as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate," Whitney Smith, a spokesperson for Kerry, told Fox News Digital in a statement. "I can confirm the plane previously owned by his wife’s family was sold last summer."
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Gulfstream GIV-SP General Info
* Acquisition Cost $6,300,000 - $7,700,000
* Variable Cost $4,148 - $5,070/hr
* Annual Cost $2,633,633 - $3,218,885
Between January 2021 and July 2022:
"Kerry's family jet, a Gulfstream GIV-SP, has made a total of 48 trips lasting more than 60 hours and emitted an estimated 715,886 pounds, or 325 metric tons, of carbon since President Biden was sworn into office."
(John Kerry's Family Private Jet)
I don’t mind these guys flying on private jets - I mind the hypocrisy.
Also, I doubt private jets emit more than 10x the amount of carbon than commercial or 50x more than trains. Maybe that should be clarified - perhaps that is per seat mile.
Yet housing prices continue to rise.
Does chartering a jet fall under the umbrella of “travelling commercially?”
John Kerry was not available for comment he is flying someplace in a Private Jet
BINGO! Kerry flying “commercial?” LOL!
If we really knew the extent, we’d be shooting & hanging folks today.
Sold it? Why didn’t they donate it to a recycling plant?
Greedy bastards.
John Kerry was in Cambodia you know.
Sure, now he'll say he needs to be in first class because his work is more important than everyone else on the plane. Then it's back to private flight for all other travel.
FUNNY HOW APPROPRIATE “FLYING SQUIRREL” connects to John Kerry.
Leased back with the taxpaying chumps paying for the fuel. After all, he is the climate envoy. Whatever would we do without a climate envoy?
Shortly??? People have been talking about this for a while.
Kin ah git me a private jet heah?
FTA: Four days later, an individual named Yvonne Rivera requested the FAA place an industry-level Limiting Aircraft Data Displayed (LADD) on the aircraft to block it from being publicly tracked
This means Kerry is still using it.
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