North Carolina aircraft broker flies the highest.

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Building and maintaining aircraft is important to the North Carolina economy. Selling them has a place, too. Raleigh-based Jetcraft Corp., founded in the early 1960s by Charles "Bucky" Oliver, is the largest aircraft broker in the world with sales of about $1 billion in 2013, up from $530 million in 2009. Its customer base is widespread--including North America, Europe, Asia and Africa--and diverse--small to S&P 300 companies and governments. They see an aircraft as a tool that improves their performance by increasing access, speed, agility and customer service. Each market has...