{"id":18356,"date":"2021-05-10T22:26:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T22:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=18356"},"modified":"2021-05-10T22:26:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T22:26:07","slug":"baker-aviation-announces-new-facility-and-appoints-harry-mitchel-to-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/texas\/baker-aviation-announces-new-facility-and-appoints-harry-mitchel-to-vp\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Baker Aviation Announces New Facility and Appoints Harry Mitchel to VP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Baker Aviation, a full-service aircraft maintenance,\nmanagement and charter company is now located in a new 66,000+ square foot\nfacility at Fort Worth, Meacham International Airport (KFTW).&nbsp; The Baker business moved into the spacious\ntwo-hangar facility last year as they outgrew the previous Fort Worth\nlocation.&nbsp; In addition, Harry Mitchel has\nbeen named Vice President of Operations to facilitate future plans for growth\nand success of the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are optimistic about the industry, especially here in\nNorth Texas and took advantage of the opportunity to expand and began building\nthis facility in 2019,\u201d stated Stan Baker, III, President of Baker Aviation.\n\u201cOf course, no one saw the pandemic coming last year so we adjusted to keep our\nbusiness flying. Bringing Harry on board was one of the strategic decisions we\nmade to further develop our opportunities, post Covid-19, and he has hit the\nground running. Harry\u2019s experience and aviation insight makes him a great\naddition to our team, and I look forward to working with him,\u201d added Baker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Harry_Mitcheledit.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18357\" width=\"147\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Harry_Mitcheledit.jpg 310w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Harry_Mitcheledit-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 147px) 100vw, 147px\" \/><figcaption><em>Harry Mitchel<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Harry Mitchel has more than 35 years\u2019 experience in\noperational leadership and consulting roles and was most recently the Chief\nOperating Officer for Executive AirShare where he was responsible for flight\noperations, owners\u2019 services, scheduling, and maintenance departments for a\nfleet of 43 aircraft. Prior to developing and expanding a food franchise in\nNashville as President, Mitchel was Vice President of Operations for Colgan Air\nwhere he managed operations that included 56 aircraft and 500 crewmembers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and ATP\nrated pilot, Mitchel has FAA Part 135, 121 and 125 expertise and has served as\nChief Pilot, Director of Aviation, Check Airman, Flight and Ground Instructor.\nHe has over 7000 hours of total flight time with 2000 of them in the Boeing\nBusiness Jet \/ 737s flying global operations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Established in 2008 exclusively as a private jet services\ncompany to provide a broad scope of customized aviation services, Baker\nAviation has diversified their maintenance platforms and product offerings over\nthe years and today serves as a full-service aircraft maintenance, management,\nand global charter company. Baker Aviation Services Group was formed in 2019 to\nmanage current strategic partnerships, dealerships, contractual management, and\ncompliance, as well as direct HOT-STOP\u00ae \u2018L\u2019 fire containment kit sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baker Aviation, a full-service aircraft maintenance, management and charter company is now located in a new 66,000+ square foot facility at Fort Worth, Meacham International Airport (KFTW).&nbsp; The Baker business moved into the spacious two-hangar facility last year as they outgrew the previous Fort Worth location.&nbsp; In addition, Harry Mitchel has been named Vice President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-texas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18356","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=18356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18358,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18356\/revisions\/18358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}