Marc Schupan discovers the benefits of bizav The only regret Marc Schupan has about owning a 1985 Beechcraft King Air C90A is that he didn’t discover the value of business aviation earlier and begin reaping the rewards the King Air has brought to his business and life. “We started using the King Air four or…
CSI Aviation, long-time management and logistics firm, starts Part 135 operation with King Airs Pick an airframe – from a Boeing 737 to a Cessna 172 – and it’s likely CSI Aviation, Inc. has experience with it during the company’s 37 years as an aviation management and logistics company serving government and civilian customers. When…
Stacy Wilson, vice president of Wilson Construction, grew up in the electric utility construction business. Her grandfather, Matt O. Wilson, started building power lines in 1952 to connect farms in rural Oregon and Washington to the electrical grid. Stacy’s father and current Wilson Construction president, Don Wilson, joined the company in 1974. Early in his…
GlobalParts.aero uses array of bizav tools to expand Sure, the sales team at GlobalParts.aero could drive to the parking lot at a fixed-base operator, walk through the front door and talk to the FBO’s management team about buying parts. Or, the sales team could land at the airport, taxi up to the FBO, purchase fuel…
The debut and announcement of new airplane models often dominate the headlines at the annual National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Convention & Exhibition, but this year there was also plenty of news regarding Beechcraft King Airs at the Nov. 17-19 event in Las Vegas. Among the estimated 26,000 attendees, 1,100 exhibits and 100 aircraft on…
King Air B200 owner creates King Air Academy Ron McAlister is a guy who should be retired, but he’s working two jobs and loving it. “I gotta tell ya,” the 62-year-old said, “I’m having a ball.” One of the main reasons he’s having too much fun to stop is that he’s the owner-operator of a…
Olive Ann Beech was not impressed when first approached, in 1973, by the founders of the newly forming Staggerwing Museum Foundation in Tullahoma, Tennessee. She told the organizers she wasn’t a fan of museums and that they were often underfunded ideas that lost steam. The then-chairman of Beech Aircraft had a change of heart, though,…
Onshore Outsourcing relies on King Air B200 to bringing IT jobs back onshore The King Air, our King Air, is essential to revitalizing rural America,” said Shane Mayes, founder and CEO of Onshore Outsourcing. That might sound like a brazen statement but Onshore Outsourcing has the business model and results to back it up: “Our…
Some 85 King Airs have flown the Disabled Veterans through Veterans Airlift Command The request from Veterans Airlift Command (VAC) was the kind that Jim Harris loves to say yes to. The organization needed him to fly the first leg of a trip that would take the wife of a wounded warrior from her home in…
Company pilots verify extended range with California-Hawaii flights Since the extended-range King Air 350ER was certified in 2007, Beechcraft has promoted it as a solution for government and private operators who need to get anywhere in the world without using cabin space for ferry fuel tanks and spending time making modifications or de-modifications. In September, two…