Hawker Beechcraft has launched its own advertising campaign to counter the negative publicity currently swirling around business aviation, referring directly to that terrible day on Capitol Hill.

Chairman and CEO Jim Schuster recently blamed the growing negative attention on the industry for helping to intensify the volatility in the marketplace.

“The media and some politicians have cast general aviation as a wasteful extravagance instead of a critical business tool and the source of millions of American jobs,” he said.

Starbucks is trying to sell the $45 million corporate jet it bought last month.

Starbucks’ new jet - a Gulfstream 550 - has made only 15 flights, according to Avpro’s online sales pitch.

Several of those landings were in Honolulu and Kona, Hawaii, during a two-week trip apparently taken by CEO Howard Schultz.

A Starbucks spokeswoman said the company ordered the 19-seat plane three years ago and determined that canceling delivery would be too expensive.