Some feel that the rise in publicly owned aviation companies managed by MBAs has resulted in a decline in personal service. Betting that there is room for both old-fashioned personal attention and modern smarts in one operation, Savannah Air Center, located on Savannah International Airport, Georgia, is a full-service aviation center offering aircraft maintenance, avionics installation and repair, interior modifications and completions and exterior aircraft painting. President Frank Dodds, vice president Jeff Zacharius and chief engineer/certification Hoss Motlagh started working on the idea of creating their own company in 1991. According to Zacharius, they formulated the concept, developed a business plan and set about raising the necessary capital to make it happen.
“It took about seven years to put the whole thing together,” Zacharius told AIN. “We incorporated in 1998, built our first hangar and opened the door in December 1999. It’s a 50,000-sq-ft facility for exterior paint and moderate interiors such as refurb, carpet and so on. Our administrative offices are on the second floor.” It was a logical first step for Zacharius, who has been involved with corporate aircraft interior modifications and completions since 1976.
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