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Groom Aviation Sales takes off

By Janice Wood · October 29, 2009 ·

Groom Aviation LLC partners Randy Groom and Doug Brantner have formed Groom Aviation Sales LLC, which specializes in turbine aircraft sales. Before forming Groom Aviation, Groom was president of Beechcraft, and Brantner, a CPA, was formerly vice president of Hawker Beechcraft Services.

Joining the new company are longtime King Air specialists Andy Biller and Blair Sullivan.

Biller has been a part of the Beechcraft sales and support organization for nearly 20 years. Almost half of the aircraft transactions he conducted included new and pre-owned King Airs. He received his bachelor of arts in marketing from the University of Northern Iowa. Since learning to fly while still in high school, Biller accumulated more than 3,500 hours of experience in many types of aircraft and conditions.

Sullivan was director of the King Air Program for Beechcraft in addition to serving in a number of aviation sales and marketing assignments for the company.He has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Management from Purdue

University and a master in Business Administration from Wichita State University. He also holds an Airline Transport Pilot certificate and has 5,000 hours of flight experience, including numerous transatlantic crossings.

For more information: GroomAviationSales.com.

About Janice Wood

Janice Wood is editor of General Aviation News.

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  1. John Ackerman says

    November 19, 2009 at 5:40 am

    Randy,
    Good luck with this and if you ever need one of our Bonanza engine coversions let me know.
    John

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