Brian W. Ames Named Program Manager

STRATFORD — Flight Services Group (FSG), an Ogden Aviation Company, and one of the nation’s largest providers of corporate aviation services, has named Brian W. Ames of Newtown as Gulfstream program manager.

Mr Ames will be responsible to supervise all aspects of maintenance for FSG’s managed fleet of Gulfstream aircraft, including planning and budgeting, airworthiness, inspection and quality assurance. FSG includes Gulfstream IIs, IIIs and IVs in its fleet of 36 executive aircraft.

Mr Ames brings 24 years of management and maintenance experience to his new position at FSG. He had worked at Tenneco Inc. since 1976, most recently as superintendent of maintenance and quality assurance in charge of maintaining Tenneco’s corporate fleet of Gulfstream and Cessna Citation aircraft in accordance with FAA regulations and manufacturers’ requirements. At Tenneco-Houston, he was responsible for all airworthiness, inspection and quality assurance for three FAR Part 145 repair stations, five outstations, and the company’s corporate fleet of Gulfstream, Cessna Citation, Bell 206, and MBB-BO-105 aircraft.

Mr Ames, who majored in aeronautical engineering at Ohio State University, is a member of the Professional Aviation mechanics Association (PAMA) and the American Society for Quality Control. He received the NBAA Maintenance Safety Award in 1989 and PAMA’s ATP Maintenance Technician of the Year Award in 1996, and was the technical advisor for the Project Orbis DC-10 Airworthiness Program from 1994 to 1998. He resides in Newtown, with his wife and two children.

Founded in 1984, Flight Services Group is among the largest providers of corporate aircraft management, executive charter, and aircraft sales and acquisition in the United States. FSG manages a fleet that ranges in size from an executive-configured DC-9 and a Gulfstream IV business jet to Beechcraft King Airs, from its 18 bases of operation throughout the United States.

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