Forget New York

Moving his company, Flightdocs, to Southwest Florida to flee the high taxes of New York state continues to pay off for Rick Heine.

Now based in Bonita Springs, the company, for one, has reaped quick rewards from last year's launch of new aircraft maintenance and inventory management software. Heine calls the program, which brought a nearly 40% increase in first quarter revenue for the global company, the most advanced in the world. And more recently, Flightdocs went to market with HMX, a version of the software designed for helicopters.

All versions of the software product, Enterprise, capture all the information on work done to the aircraft, including who did it and when, Heine says. The 38.5% jump in sales over the first quarter of 2016 follows a $6 million investment and three years of development work on the Enterprise platform, he says.