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at the fl ight department started. Nonetheless, I stuck with it at the time and wasn’t looking for a job.” Around that time, one of Newell’s pilots knew that SC Aviation was hiring. The company had just received its Part 135 certifi cate,


and was looking for a DOM. The pilot suggested that maybe Dillavou would be a good fi t for the job. SC Aviation called Dillavou in for an interview. At the time, Dillavou had a six-minute drive to work. It would be a 45-minute drive for him to


SC Aviation in Janesville, WI. SC Aviation off ered Dillavou the DOM job. “I turned it down,” Dillavou says. “I didn’t want to be on the road an hour and a half every day and I was happy at Newell. They called me back and asked, ‘What’s it going to take?’ I thought about it, and we came to an agreement. I started there in November 2001 with two airplanes.”


SC AVIATION “SC Aviation is a phenomenal company to work for,” Dillavou says. “Back in the early days of the company, there weren’t the roads or infrastructure to go to where the owner Ray Kubly needed to be to sell his products. So Kubly bought a Cessna 140 in 1946, learned to fl y it, and was able to go do business — the beginning of corporate aviation. Instead of taking a day to get somewhere and then meet the next day and drive back, he could be there and back in the same day! That was the small and humble beginnings of SC Aviation.” In the 1990’s, Swiss Colonies decided that they weren’t fl ying their aircraft enough, and had their aircraft transferred over to several diff erent Part 135 certifi cates as a way to defer costs. Then in 2000, the company decided to skip the middle man and acquire its own Part 135 certifi cate. That was just before Dillavou became the DOM. “Then the company decided to grow it’s Part 135 operation,” Dillavou shares. “Why just use our two airplanes for charter? Why not get some more aircraft? Why not get other aircraft owners to join our Part 135? And that’s what we did! We went from two airplanes, to three to fi ve to eight. That’s when there was too much going on, and I hired my fi rst helper — Russ Paulson, a very intelligent man who was the fi rst person I “heavily recruited” from the area. As we got busier and we


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