{"id":17650,"date":"2021-02-08T22:19:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T22:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=17650"},"modified":"2021-02-08T22:22:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T22:22:35","slug":"bahamas-added-to-premiers-exclusive-aircraft-sales-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/florida\/bahamas-added-to-premiers-exclusive-aircraft-sales-territory\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Added to Premier\u2019s Exclusive Aircraft Sales Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Premier Aircraft Sales has been selected as the\nexclusive Diamond Aircraft dealer for the Bahamas. With the addition, Premier\nnow serves 43 percent of Diamond\u2019s customer base in North America. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis business growth will enable us to better support\ncustomers who live and work in the Caribbean,\u201d said Travis Peffer, Premier\nAircraft president. \u201cThe Bahamas are a longtime favorite destination of general\naviation pilots. There are considerable opportunities to expand Diamond\u2019s\npresence throughout the Bahamas which have more than 40 airports. We\u2019ve\nsupported Bahamian customers with aircraft service for more than a decade, so\nthis expansion creates even\ngreater synergies between our sales and service operations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The flight time from\nthe Bahamas to Premier\u2019s Fort Lauderdale headquarters is less than an hour.\nSince 2003, Premier Aircraft has been the highest volume Diamond Aircraft\ndealer in the world, selling a total of641 new and preowned Diamonds\nsince then. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSouthern\nFlorida has always been a gateway to the Bahamas and having Premier Aircraft\nrepresent sales and service in this region is a natural fit,\u201d said Scott\nMcFadzean, CEO of Diamond Aircraft Industries Inc. \u201cPrivate aviation continues\nto gain momentum and the twin- engine DA62 or new single engine DA50RG, coming\nto the North American market in early 2022, are the perfect aircraft to take\nfull advantage of the Caribbean.  We are\nconfident Premier will excel in this market.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Premier\u2019s exclusive dealer territory also includes 19\nstates in the Southeast and Central U.S., along with Puerto\nRico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA great selling feature of Diamonds are the composite airframes aren\u2019t susceptible corrosion, so they are excellent aircraft for flying in the hotter climates of the islands,\u201d said Jeff Owen, Premier\u2019s vice president of Sales. \u201cThe DA40s and DA62s are ideal for island hopping, and the open-water views from the Diamond bubble canopies are awe-inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For newer pilots, Owen says Premier has flight-training partners\nin the Fort Lauderdale area to assist with transition and advanced pilot\ninstruction. \u201cDiamond\u2019s DA20 and DA40 line are exceptional aircraft for pilots\nstarting out because of their ease of operation and safety characteristics,\u201d he\nsaid. \u201cWe see the entire Caribbean as a promising market for opening up the\nDiamond flying experience to new customers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Premier Aircraft Sales has been selected as the exclusive Diamond Aircraft dealer for the Bahamas. With the addition, Premier now serves 43 percent of Diamond\u2019s customer base in North America. \u201cThis business growth will enable us to better support customers who live and work in the Caribbean,\u201d said Travis Peffer, Premier Aircraft president. \u201cThe Bahamas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-florida","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/GH030155_Momentedit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17655,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17650\/revisions\/17655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}