Corporate Aviation Company -- ADI Inc. (Aerodynamics Inc.)

ADI Inc. (Aerodynamics Inc).
http://www.flyadi.com/

General Information About the Company

ADI Inc. is Aerodynamics Inc., based in Pontiac Michigan (Waterford Michigan) at the PTK-airport. They're a Part 91, 121, 125 and 135 operation based charter company, which basically allows them to conduct a wide variety of operations to meet their corporate customer needs. The company was founded in 1959 by Frank P. Macartney, and was actually started at PTK airport at that particular time, where it presently resides today. Merely a year after its inception, ADI was a representative for piper aircraft, and was becoming relatively well known in the general aviation community during the early 1960's. This was expanded upon further when in 1963, they entered into a long-term association with Beechcraft to become an authorized distributor of aircraft, parts, and maintenance services to operators in the State of Michigan. That's essentially how the company began and grew over the coming years (and decades). As revenue grew, aircraft were added, the customer base expanded, jobs were created and the company sustained decent growth through the years. The acquisition of a competitor (also located in PTK / Pontiac) in 1988 also helped grow the company substantially, having acquired that particular competitors fleet, facilities, services, customers, etc. Recently, ADI acquired an Airbus A319 to conduct domestic and international charters for their customers. The A319, configured in a business-like setting, is comparable to the Boeing BBJ (Boeing Business Jet -- a Boeing 737 configured for long-haul corporate use). Having added the A319 to ADI's fleet will help grow their customer base to include international customers and/or domestic customers looking to travel internationally. In 2011, ADI was sold and subsequently purchased by Scott A. Beale, whom is now ADI's CEO. Presently, ADI still resides in PTK and continues a successful operation there. Under Scott Beale's directive, ADI is working to expand their operations by opening a new location in Atlanta, mirroring their operations base here in PTK.

Fleet wise, they have a large fleet consisting of various aircraft to meet their customer needs. Typically, the Citation Excel and Gulfstream III are often available for on-demand charter based operations, according to ADI's website. However, their aircraft span from King Air's, Pilatus, Hawker's, Beechjet/Beechcraft's, Citation's, Learjet's, and Gulfstream's. Primarily a jet-based fleet, but they retain a few turboprop aircraft (such as the PC-12 and the King Air). The A319 is part of their fleet, too. All aircraft are configured in a corporate-like setting, of course, with various amenities to meet the individual customer’s needs. On a side note, ADI also conducts MRO services on all of these aircraft (MRO meaning Maintenance Repair Overhaul). So, any other corporate company (or anyone whom may have these particular planes) can have maintenance done (heavy maintenance or otherwise) at ADI, as it's something they're certified for, both by the FAA and those respective aircraft manufacturers.

ADI also handles aircraft sales. Having been a long-term dealer for Piper, Beechcraft, and other manufactures for several decades, they're well versed in selling aircraft. They offer services with respect to selling your aircraft, acquiring an aircraft (purchasing an aircraft), and assist first time owners with making purchasing decisions. If you were to use ADI, for example, you could work with them to outline all the amenities and features you want in an aircraft. Perhaps you needed long-range, you wanted at least 10 seats, wifi capability, leather interior, etc., ADI would then take this information and conduct a worldwide search for aircraft that best fit that particular description (the customer's needs). Obviously utilizing such services comes with a cost, but, if you were unfamiliar with buying an aircraft, had no idea what you were doing, and/or simply didn't know where to begin, then this would maybe be an ideal option to look into. Even after finding an aircraft, ADI would help assist you through the entire sales process till the aircraft was fully in your position. A valuable service for the inexperienced aircraft-buyer. Additionally, ADI offers a detailing service (interior and exterior), something that you could use had you purchased an aircraft (and handle this with their sales department as described above), or whether you simply were in town and wanted to have your aircraft detailed at ADI.

A few interesting facts about ADI – Surprisingly, they fly nearly a quarter-million passengers annually. By all means not a small operation, even though they're (in the big scheme of things) a relatively small carrier. Over 205 employees, consisting of flight crews, mechanics, technicians, and support staff -- work for ADI. On average 98% of their flights are on time, featuring 40 average daily departures. They have 7 smaller-subsidiary bases in 6 different states, and surprisingly, have only had 1 majority owner since 1959.

Career Opportunities

ADI actually has several job opportunities available, ranging from pilot jobs, to flight attendants, management, maintenance, and dispatch-related. Various sales jobs are available also. These are all career opportunities available to a management and/or flight related degree earned from Eastern. To list these job descriptions on here would take up pages of information, however a list of all the available jobs (and you can click on the jobs to view their descriptions) is available on JSFirm -- Click Here for Details. Since I’m neither a flight student nor presently flying, the pilot jobs are obviously not available to me. However, considering they're looking for Embraer 145 pilots, it's safe to say it looks like ADI will be adding an Embraer 145 aircraft to their already-large fleet. One of the jobs I’d be interesting in, which is one of the reasons why I chose to write about ADI in this blog, was their flight following job (dispatch). Assuming all goes well and as planned, I should have my FAA dispatcher’s license within the next couple months. Once that's done, I’ll have met all the qualifications for the flight following job at ADI, should I choose to pursue it. The qualifications are that you have to be at least 18 years of age, effective communication skills, read-write-understand the English language, a high school diploma, college degree (preferred but not required), dispatchers license, knowledge of Microsoft Office (word, excel, outlook, etc.) and some customer service experience. The job duties as a flight follower at ADI would be to manage the successful outcome of all flights; customer, flight crew and maintenance coordination per flight operations; ensuring accurate data input per flight following; assisting in data collection reporting and development; and assisting with other ADI managed aircraft on an as-needed basis. This particular job posting can be found Here. Nonetheless, with their long established reputation and good-longstanding status as a corporate aviation company, ADI seems like they'd be a great company to look into, and/or eventually working for.