When you talk about the government making a similar charge on aviation fuel you can only mean the fuel that airlines and commercial operators burn. But if, as your post suggest, you mean taxing aviation fuel for private and recreational flight, which might be considered equivalent to recreational sailing, you are mistaken in your assumption.
Pretty much all small, light aircraft burn petrol, or avgas as it's known. That stuff is the most expensive petrol you can buy, much dearer than the stuff you get from the forecourt of your garage to use in your car. The reason used to be that since it was a petrol it could be used in a car and therefore it should have the same duties applied to it, and it still does. Nowadays it is unlikely that (a) you would find anyone to pump it into anything other than an aeroplane for liability reasons (b) it would be a rational thing to do since avgas is heavily leaded, much more so that was the old 4 star, so that a small whiff of the exhaust would destroy the cat in jig time with the resultant heavy bill for replacement.
Consequently, most recreational fliers already pay more for their fuel than anyone else.
I'm with you on the ship's radio thing, though.
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