Thanks to a business air-travel trade group, politicians, CEOs and even televangelists have been able to fly around the U.S. and the world without having to make their flight information available to the American public. But after a lengthy legal battle, ProPublica managed to gain access to records from Block Aircraft Registration Request (BARR) Program, maintained by the National Business Aviation Association in conjunction with the Federal Aviation Administration, which has long insisted on secrecy for private jet flights to protect business deals and the security of executives. However, on February 26, federal district judge Rosemary Collyer ruled that because the records of these flights are funded by taxpayers, the public has the right to know their details.