July/August 2022

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Bryan Helm
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Bryan Helm initially wanted to be a helicopter pilot. “I always wanted to fly helicopters, but the cost of flying helicopter was so outrageous, so I needed something to help pay...
Aug. 11, 2022
Emersen Cislo
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Emersen Cislo has a hand in saving lives in his work with Life Flight Network. He is on call 24 hours a day for seven days on, seven off, serving three aircraft that are utilized...
Aug. 11, 2022
Master Sergeant Roscoe D. Tamondong – AAS/A&P/GROL/AET
U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant Roscoe Tamondong is a production superintendent with the 305 Maintenance Squadron at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey. He is part of...
Aug. 11, 2022
Bradley Krahn
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Bradley Krahn bounced around a number of industries during the beginnings of his career. Then 10 years ago, Krahn found himself hooked by aviation. “About 10 years ago, my brother...
Aug. 11, 2022
Jake Stauffer
Jake Stauffer
Jake Stauffer grew up in a family of mechanics. His grandfather, Glenn, worked on cars, and instilled the passion in Stauffer’s father, Daniel, who in turn taught it to him. Stauffer...
Aug. 11, 2022
Veronica Leacock-Borchardt
At age 20, Veronica Leacock-Borchardt earned her Associate in Aircraft Maintenance from the Instituto Superior de Formación Profesional Aeronáutica in Panama. She also earned ...
Aug. 11, 2022
David G. Miller
David G. Miller
David Miller said he’s always been technical and mechanically minded. “My love for applied physics and my job allow me to further my knowledge. My father introduced me to aviation...
Aug. 11, 2022
Paris M. Krula, Capt/GS-12, USAF
U.S. Air Force Captain/GS-12 Paris M. Krula is the director of operations for the 714th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (Reserve), and was recently selected to “dual hat” for the...
Aug. 11, 2022
Mitch Lutze-Morris
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Mitch Lutze-Morris got into aviation on a whim, he said, having never seen nor flown on an airplane, outside of one time skydiving, before. “I was working as a bank teller for...
Aug. 11, 2022
Alisa Lockwood
A lifelong fascination with aircraft and machines inspired Alisa Lockwood to begin studying in 2017. She truly enjoys her work as an aircraft maintenance technician for Delta ...
Aug. 11, 2022
Andrew Kutcher
Andrew Kutcher
Andrew Kutcher joined StandardAero’s Winnipeg team in 2009 as a technician within the facility’s CF34 Destack Team. The company helped put Kutcher through college for the Gas ...
Aug. 11, 2022
Jeffrey W. Turner
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Jeffery Turner was unsure of what he wanted to do with his career post-high school. When the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics came to give a presentation at his school, Turner...
Aug. 11, 2022
Uzair Shahid
Uzair Shahid was born and raised in Pakistan. He started his aviation career as an apprentice with Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) at age 21. His passion for aviation came...
Aug. 11, 2022
Brandon Feagan
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Brandon Feagan said he just kind of fell into aviation. No one in his family had worked in it before, and his working life started out with a position in his father’s machine ...
Aug. 11, 2022
AviationPros.com
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Congratulations to this year’s winners of the AMT 40 Under 40 Maintenance Professionals Awards!
Aug. 11, 2022
Clayton Long
Clayton Long
When he was growing up, Clayton Long was always interested in aviation – and with good cause – as it is in his blood.
Aug. 11, 2022
Stanley Rhodes
Stanley Rhodes is a lead avionics technician for AVEX Aviation in Broomfield, Colorado. His story is perhaps best described as one of hard work, determination and old-fashioned...
Aug. 11, 2022
Devan C. Fronk
Devan C. Fronk
Devan Fronk said he is following in the footsteps of his father, who has been an aircraft mechanic his entire life. “When I was younger, we went up to visit my dad at work. I ...
Aug. 11, 2022
John M. Hardin
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As chief flight instructor and head mechanic of the family-owned and operated FBO Terrell Aviation, John Hardin said he is often at the airport seven days a week. Hardin’s parents...
Aug. 11, 2022
Gareth Lawson
Gareth Lawson
Aviation is something Gareth Lawson has been around most his life. “My whole family is kind of in aviation. I have two cousins that are pilots and my uncle is a pilot as well....
Aug. 11, 2022
Sun Valley Aviation
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Rolando Rodriguez is the director of maintenance for Sun Valley Aviation, a fixed-based operator in Harlingen, Texas. He graduated from the Texas State Technical College Aviation...
Aug. 11, 2022
Gregory Tarascio
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Gregory Tarascio grew up second generation in a flight school family business – Ventura Air Services. “I started coming with my dad here when I was about 8 years old. Started ...
Aug. 11, 2022
Spirit Airlines
Kirk Jacobs
“The dynamic environment that aviation provides gives excitement and variety to each day,” said Kirk Jacobs, who early on had a technical and mechanical skillset. Driven by a ...
Aug. 11, 2022
James Alexander McPherson
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As the company-owned Fleet Sustainment Program Manager for General Atomics Aeronautical Systems – the OEM for the MQ-9 Reaper, MQ-9B SkyGuardian, MQ-1 Predator and MQ-1C Gray ...
Aug. 11, 2022
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ARSA has supported AMT Magazine’s “40 Under 40” Awards since its inception, not just since I was presented with the award in 2015). The world will depend on young professionals...
Aug. 11, 2022
Leonel A. Turcios
Leonel A. Turcios
Leonel Turcios finds reward in solving the complex, and sometimes confounding, problems of his field. “What I enjoy most about my job is the fact that whenever you figure something...
Aug. 11, 2022
Kasey Dixon
Kasey Dixon
Kasey Dixon started her career in the Army, where she was an aircraft mechanic specializing in armament and avionics systems on the AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopter. Her experiences...
Aug. 11, 2022
Patrick Reed
A high school tennis coach introduced Patrick Reed to aviation. When Reed said he didn’t know what he wanted to do after high school, his coach told him he was going to be an ...
Aug. 11, 2022
Southeast Avionics
Jeremy J. Hill
Jeremy Hill's aviation career began in the Marines. For a little over three of his five years with the Marines, he worked on the V-8B Harrier II. Coming out of the service, Hill...
Aug. 11, 2022
Alyssa Marie Sullivan
Alyssa Marie Sullivan
Alyssa Sullivan began her career in aviation, likely, as soon as was possible, helping her father in the family business of maintenance and repair of hot air balloons when she...
Aug. 11, 2022