PROFILE
Chad Doehring C
By Joe Escobar Duncan Aviation | Airframe Manager
had Doehring was born and raised in Arvada, Colorado. He grew up in a law enforcement family. His dad was a police offi cer. Doehring was also involved in athletics including football
in high school. It seemed like he was destined to become a police offi cer. He had options to go to college to become a police offi cer and even had some football options. Yet he ended up stumbling into aviation. Doehring is currently Duncan Aviation’s airframe manager in Lincoln, Nebraska. This is his story. Doehring says he always enjoyed working with his hands and did well in industrial arts classes in school. His dad could sense this, and suggested to him that instead of following the family’s law enforcement path, he might want to take a look at another career option. “My dad told me, ‘You ought to check into that place on the hill that teaches you how to work on airplanes,’” Doehring tells D.O.M. magazine. “The ‘place on the hill’ he was referring to was Colorado Aerotech – an A&P school. Back then, they had a contest for high school graduates. If you submitted an essay on what it takes to be an A&P mechanic, got three letters of reference, and had a personal interview, you had a chance to win a full-ride scholarship to the school. That’s how I stumbled into aviation – I won the contest and was awarded a full-ride scholarship.” While Doehring was in A&P school, his dad got a job as the chief of police in Leavenworth, Kansas. When he graduated from A&P school in the early ‘90s, aircraft maintenance jobs were scarce. So he moved to Leavenworth and got a job at the local FBO. “It wasn’t a glorious job,” Doehring says. “I was hired as a mechanic, but did a lot of ‘mow the grass’ and ‘fuel the aircraft’ jobs.” After a few months working at the FBO, Doehring
went to work for Northrop Grumman in Palmdale, CA, to work on the B2 Bomber program. He was a hydraulic and structures mechanic there for three years.
WANTING TO GO HOME Doehring wanted to move to Nebraska to be closer to his family. Doehring’s aunt, who lived in Lincoln, knew a lady who worked at Duncan Aviation. She got him an interview, and in 1994 Doehring was hired as an airframe mechanic on Hawkers and Falcons. “I was fortunate to get hired even though I didn’t have any corporate aviation experience,” Doehring says. “I cut my teeth on Hawkers and Falcons.”
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