Twelve years in aviation: five of them in aircraft leasing, seven in business aviation, including an airline I built from scratch and then ran. I do the same things I write about: I find and buy aircraft, put them into service and operate them.
Building a carrier from the business model through to the AOC: the legal entity, the fleet, manuals and procedures, nominated postholders, the maintenance base, certification.
HondaJet — including moving the aircraft from the Maltese register to the Russian one. AW169. Introducing a type is not about the aircraft: it is about documentation, the maintenance programme, training for crews and engineers, approvals.
Work for a client: from choosing the site and obtaining the approvals through to entry into service. This is where it most often goes wrong for those who try to build a site on their own.
Mi-8, Airbus Helicopters machines, Bombardier Global, Embraer Legacy: selection, inspection, running the transaction, import and registration, entry into service.
Models of aviation businesses for owners, investors and financing parties: the cost of a flight hour, the economics of the fleet and the network, the break-even point.
Tell me what you need and I will answer personally. If it is not my kind of task, I will say so plainly and name the people who do handle it.
