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Private Jet Muni-Borrower Bets on Connecticut’s Millionaires

  • Clay Lacy Aviation deal signals return of muni junk bonds
  • New Connecticut site to offer ‘remote parking facility’
A rendering of Clay Lacy’s new facilities at Waterbury-Oxford Airport.Source: Clay Lacy Aviation Inc.
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A company that caters to the Hollywood private-jet set is tapping the municipal market to help it expand in Connecticut, where it hopes to serve the uber rich.

The unrated $43.8 million deal is being sold through the Wisconsin Public Finance Authority, a conduit issuer, for Clay Lacy Aviation Inc. to fund new construction and improvements at the Waterbury-Oxford Airport in Oxford, Connecticut, which is located about 80 miles from Manhattan.