Atlantic Aero saw life in the fall of 1971, when a group of Greensboro, N.C. investors identified a need for an FBO on Piedmont Triad International Airport. The company began operations with a staff of 15 employees, 38 plane ports and two 10,000-sq-ft-hangars. It also retained John Godwin as a consultant to tap into his years of FBO management experience. Godwin’s vision for a full-service FBO is what the investors had in mind and he joined the company as president.
By the early 1980s he began to perceive an industry-wide problem: technology was moving ahead at a dramatic pace, but that progress did not extend to modern aircraft, which were simply repainted versions of 1950s technology. Godwin’s son Don had an idea about how to keep up: form an engineering team that could design, develop and market technologically advanced supplemental type certificates (STCs) and parts manufacturing approvals (PMAs).
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