Mr. Mitchell joined AMS in the fall of 2010. He brings more than thirty years of experience in business aviation to the AMS team. Tom has a strong background in management, operations, customer service and support.

He previously held positions with Jet Aviation of America, Inc. as a Director, General Manager, Vice President and Senior Vice President of the company's technical services product lines. His responsibilities at Jet Aviation included direct accountability for four of the company's FAR Part 145 Repair Stations which provided heavy maintenance, paint, interior, avionics and structural engineering for various mid-size and large-cabin business jets.

Tom has served as a manager for a fortune 500 company that owned and operated several Dassault and Bombardier business jets. His responsibilities involved managing the technical aspects of five large-cabin, long-range business jets, establishing and implementing formal budgets for the aircraft and support operations, establishing and meeting deadlines and interfacing with senior management. He also participated in and managed several aircraft completions, negotiated contracts and monitored the performance of vendors. Tom also introduced a program for mitigating risk and developed a formal "Safety Management System."

He has served as a Director of Maintenance for an FAR Part 135 charter provider operating business jets and helicopters, has hands-on heavy maintenance experience and designed and built an authorized turbine engine repair facility that performed major repairs on Pratt and Whitney, Lycoming and General Electric engines.

Among his key accomplishments Tom successfully negotiated a number of service center authorizations and contracts with major airframe and engine manufacturers and in the process developed strong business relationships with companies like Cessna, Bombardier, Dassault, General Electric, Gulfstream, Honeywell, McDonnell Douglas/Boeing, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon and Rolls-Royce.

Tom has contributed to numerous articles and was featured in Aviation Maintenance Magazine on the success of independent FAA Repair Stations and the implications of proposed FAR Part 145 rulemaking.

Mr. Mitchell graduated with honors from East Coast Aero Tech and he holds an FAA Airframe & Powerplant License with an Inspectors Authorization. He has attended Harvard Business School's Executive Education Program for Senior Executives, American Management Corporation's Marketing and Accounting Principles, ARGUS' Safety Management Systems course, Flight Safety International's Cockpit Resource Management Course and various other courses and programs that focused on safety management systems, cockpit resource management and customer service. During his career he also received formal training on Cessna, Bombardier, Dassault, General Electric, Gulfstream, Rolls Royce, Honeywell and Pratt & Whitney products. Mr. Mitchell's management, operational and technical experience combined with his varied business achievements provide him a unique perspective and approach to dealing with the challenges we are faced with today in business aviation.

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