"If you own a plane and a summer home here, or have
relatives here and you want to come and visit for month, you're not
going do that. The state must want these people not to come here.
And they won't, because they're afraid they're going to get nailed
on a use tax on their airplane."
Source: Bill Perry, owner of several
aviation-related businesses at Maine's Augusta State Airport. A
2005 revision to Maine's tax policy became effective January 1,
that levies taxes on new aircraft owners if their planes spend more
than 20 days a year on the ground there.