About Uniflight

Dee Tullos founded Uniflight in 1982. Dee spent over 45 years in the aviation maintenance and service industry, 20 of those years dedicated to the support of Bell Helicopters. In 1999, Dee sold Uniflight to Greg A’slinger. Greg entered the industry as a helicopter pilot and had an extensive background as a FAA Part 135 Air Carrier. He also provided Electronic News Gathering (ENG) service to several television and radio stations in the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex. Greg relocated Uniflight to Grand Prairie and turned it into a full service center, adding the Bell 222, 230 and 407 approvals to Uniflight’s Part 145 certificate and Bell CSF authorization. Greg’s attention to detail and focus on customer service remains a core part of the culture at Uniflight today.

In 2008, Uniflight was purchased by Hawke Capital. With this new ownership, certifications for the AS350/355, the MD 500 Series and the Agusta 109 were added to the Repair Station Part 145 certificate. In January, 2009, James Loftin joined Uniflight as President and COO. During 2009, Uniflight was approved by American Eurocopter as a Customer Service Center, initially with the AS350/355 designation, but with an agreement to expand to the full line of Eurocopter products in support of customer needs.

Uniflight’s Leadership Team

Today Uniflight is led by a professional Board of Managers comprised of investors and executives who are passionate about the rotorcraft industry. They include:

• Joe Hawke, Chairman – Joe is the founder of Hawke Capital and has been involved with several prior helicopter companies and investments, including Keystone Helicopter Corporation, Composite Technology, Inc., Air Evac Lifeteam and Med-Trans. Joe is also a member of the board of directors of Aerospace Manufacturing Group, which owns Metric Precision Machining in Gardena, California. jhawke@hawkecapital.com
  
  
• Greg A’slinger, Managing Partner –Greg is the former President of Uniflight and has been involved in numerous entrepreneurial endeavors, and his career in the helicopter industry began as a pilot managing flight operations in 1990. Prior to purchasing Uniflight, Greg founded Helijet Holdings, Inc., a provider of electronic news gathering aircraft to Dallas and Fort Worth television and radio stations, which he continues to maintain as a buyer, owner and seller of fixed and rotary wing aircraft. Mr. Aslinger holds a current FAA Commercial Rotorcraft and Fixed Wing license. He has logged more than 3,500 hours in Bell Helicopter products. greg@uniflight.com
  
  
• James Loftin, President – James is a veteran of the rotorcraft industry, having begun his career nearly 30 years ago at HeliDyne, in Ft. Worth, Texas. Mr. Loftin also spent 17 years at Turbomeca in various positions in Quality and Operations concluding his tenure as Vice President of Operations, following which he joined Air Evac Lifeteam in West Plains, Missouri, as the Vice President - Aviation, where he was responsible for all Part 145 and Part 135 operations of a Bell Helicopter fleet consisting of 94 206L models, 2 206B model, and 4 Bell 407s serving a total of 84 bases throughout the rural Midwestern United States. Included in the 206L model aircraft are a 206L1 and a 206L3 which Air Evac Lifeteam contributed to the Bell Vision L4 upgrade project. James joined Uniflight as President and COO in January 2009.  jloftin@uniflight.com