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                                                                    EXHIBIT 31.1

                                 CERTIFICATIONS

I, Casey J. Sylla, certify that:

1. I have reviewed this report on Form 10-K of Lincoln Benefit Life Company;

2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements
made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not
misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial
information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the
financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as
of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4. The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for
establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in
Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the registrant and have:

a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure
controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that
material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated
subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly
during the period in which this report is being prepared;

b) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and
procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness
of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered
by this report based on such evaluation; and

c) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant's internal control over
financial reporting that occurred during the registrant's most recent fiscal
quarter (the registrant's fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report)
that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the
registrant's internal control over financial reporting; and

5. The registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on
our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the
registrant's auditors and the audit committee of registrant's board of directors
(or persons performing the equivalent functions):

a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or
operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably
likely to adversely affect the registrant's ability to record, process,
summarize and report financial information; and

b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other
employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal control over
financial reporting.

Date: March 15, 2005

                                                /s/ Casey J. Sylla
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                                                Casey J. Sylla
                                                Chairman of the Board and
                                                Chief Executive Officer
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T H E C O L L I N G S F O U N D A T I O N

P . O. Box 24 8, 1 37 Ba r t on Roa d , St ow, M A 01 7 7 5

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John W. McGraw, Acting Director

Flights Standards Service

Federal Aviation Administration

800 Independence Ave.

Washington, DC. 20591

August 27, 2010

Dear Acting Director McGraw,

In support of our application of reconsideration submitted to you on June 16, 2010 we submit 

this additional information. On June 30, 2010 the Liberty Foundation was granted exemption 

8565C, an amendment to 8565, from John Allen. The amendment added a P-40 Warhawk to be 

operated by the Liberty Foundation. Although exemption 8565C was issued subsequent to 

Collings Foundation’s exemption 6540J issued May 7, 2010 and 6540K issued June 16, 2010 it 

does not have many of the same limitations that were imposed by 6540J/K.

Issue A:

Collings Foundation: 6540K Paragraph 37. “... [T]he PIC is prohibited from performing 

aerobatic flights while passengers are aboard the aircraft.”

Liberty Foundation: 8565C does not limit nor prohibit the Liberty Foundation from 

performing aerobatics although they operated an aircraft that is aerobatic capable.

No other FAA issued Exemption Letter has had this provision (Paragraph 37), including the 

most recent letters for the Commemorative Air Force, Cavanaugh Flight Museum, and 

Indiana Aviation Museum. All of these organizations operate aerobatic capable aircraft 

including P-51’s F4U’s T-28’s etc that offer aerobatic flights. With precedent being upheld 

by 8565 for not restricting aerobatic flight we feel that the FAA has improperly interpreted

precedent as outlined in 14 CFR Section 11.101 and Paragraph 37 should be removed. 
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Issue B:

Collings Foundation: 6540K Paragraph 40 “No persons other than the assigned flight

crewmembers may be permitted to manipulate the flight controls during flight 

operations”.

Liberty Foundation: 8565C does not limit or prohibit passengers from manipulating the 

flight controls. 

Both 6540K Paragraph 39 and 8565C Paragraph 24. State: “No persons other than 

assigned flight crewmembers may be permitted on the pilot station of the aircraft during 

flight operations”. Collings Foundation is not contesting 6540K Paragraph 39. 

The Collings Foundation would submit since no previous exemption letter carried this 

provision (Paragraph 40) and 8565C upheld this, the FAA has improperly interpreted 

precedent as outlined in 14 CFR Section 11.101 and Paragraph 40 should be removed.

I look forward to resolving these issues with you.

Warmest Regards,

/s/

Rob Collings

Executive Director

The Collings Foundation