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In a March 5, 2021, letter, Governor McMaster directed the South Carolina Department of Administration (Admin), in consultation with the Aeronautics Commission, to “conduct an up-to-date analysis on the cost and benefits of maintaining or selling aircraft owned by state agencies and institutions of higher education.” The Budget and Control Board, the predecessor agency to Admin, completed the last aeronautics study in January 2014 as directed by Proviso 117.130 of the FY2013-14 Appropriations Act. The core of the 2014 analysis was a comparison of the cost effectiveness of aircraft operated by the Aeronautics Commission and charter services. The 2021 study updates the same methodologies, for fiscal years 2018, 2019 and 2020.