Corporate Aviation Management

Author Bio

Raoul Castro is president, Aerospace International Management Systems (AIMS), Inc., which he founded in 1979 as a service organization to provide comprehensive consulting and evaluating services to corporate aviation and related business enterprises . For seventeen years he managed'seven aircraft for Marcor flight operations based at Chicago O'Hare International Airport. Other positions include: two years as technical manager and chief pilot for Turbo Flight Inc.; the modification and marketing ofa French four-engine turboprop for the American corporate aircraft market; eleven years as captain pilot in charge of maintenance and scheduling for International Harvester Company, four airplanes; two years as chiefpilot for Square D Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; three years as chief pilot for Globe Steel Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; captain pilot for United States airlines flying North and South American routes; and four-engine pilot and engineering officer with the United States Air Force. He has also served as a visiting instructor for Southern Illinois University's bachelor of science off-campus degree program in corporate aviation management, and has published over sixty articles on aviation subjects. Raoul Castro's specialized experience, coupled with the fact that he has actually managed corporate flight operations, enables him to write with authority on the subject of corporate aviation management. ...