PROFILE J
oe Wehrle’s technical expertise in Hawker and Beechcraft products over the years has earned him the label “troubleshooter extraordinaire” when it comes to maintaining these or just about any make and model of business jet. All that troubleshooting, testing, inspecting,
and evaluating the airworthiness of aircraft (like in a pre-buy inspection) are all parts of his job that Joe enjoys the most. These are what got him hooked on the aircraft maintenance world early on — and he never looked back.
EARLY INSPIRATION As a child, Wehrle and his father who was a navigator in the U.S. Air Force used to spend afternoons watching airplanes land at local airports in Houston. As the family moved around from Toronto, Canada, to Buff alo, NY, and then back to Houston, Wehrle and his dad were fascinated with watching airplanes. A family friend arranged for a tour of an air traffi c control tower. These activities were Wehrle’s fi rst exposure to aviation; little did he know at the time that they would play an important role in his choice to pursue a career in aircraft maintenance. Many years passed, and Wehrle didn’t really
give aviation any consideration as a career choice before heading off to college. He declared a major in chemical engineering. After two years he became bored with classroom studies and lectures and decided that this college curriculum was not for him. He was then faced with a big question that almost all of us must face sooner or later — what do I want to be when I grow up? He knew he didn’t want to be stuck inside behind a desk and felt he had a knack for fi xing things. As he was fl ipping through a career catalog
one day, he saw a program describing the aircraft technician/A&P license program at a local trade school in Houston. He thought about the challenge of main taining airplanes and the vivid memories of him and his dad watching all those aircraft land at all those diff erent airports came rushing back. The fond memory of the air traffi c control tower tour from long ago also came back to him, so Wehrle took this as a sign. He felt that he was meant to be an aircraft mechanic so he enrolled in the A&P technical school just as soon as he could.
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JoeWehrle
Director of Aviation BAKER AVIATION
By Marj Rose
DOMmagazine
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