Spectrum Welding Supervisor Derek Berge uses computerized milling equipment in the production process.


Spectrum Assembler Franz Lynch assembles an aeromedical module. 6 FROM LOSS TO GROWTH


Atchison’s background in business banking led him to identify Spectrum Aeromed as an opportunity in 2007. That said, there were certainly risks when he purchased the business in 2007. It was on the brink of bankruptcy. “We were literally a month or two away from turning off the lights and locking the doors,” he says.


Atchison knew the family who started and built the business. The first owner was actually an airplane pilot who found himself flying rag-tag EMS flights with no real standards, experience, or special equipment. In his quest to create a better way to perform EMS flights with airplanes, the founder lived the cliché “necessity is the mother of invention,” by starting Spectrum Aeromed.


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