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Adding the Part 135 certificate and purchasing two Beechcraft King Air aircraft is the latest expansion for a business that started by facilitating charter flights and has transformed into a global operation solving complex aviation requirements for air charter services, aviation logistics and program management.
From bus charter to air charter
He discovered a market for coordinating athletic air charters to transport NCAA football teams to away games, and CSI formed in 1979.
Weh continued to use his military and business contacts to grow the charter business from its headquarters in Albuquerque, New Mexico. “Our charter skills steered us into government contracts and that led to more specialized programs within the government base, actually managing an entire program instead of just managing an individual charter. That led to aircraft leasing, setting up ground handling and other specialized services,” said Marc
CSI Aviation’s King Air B300 is one of two King Airs owned by the company. The aircraft are based at Albuquerque International Sunport with a flight department that includes five pilots, a dispatcher, a director of maintenance and a chief inspector. (PHOTO CREDIT: RON ELLEDGE)
Allen Weh, a career Marine Corps Reserve Officer
with undergraduate and graduate degrees from the
University of New Mexico, was organizing bus charters
for collegiate football teams when one of the schools
asked if he could help them charter an airplane. Ramthun, CSI’s senior director of Sales.
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