International and Domestic Aviation Consulting

For almost 40 years, C.A. has led and developed airlines, air services, contract aviation set-up and administration and dealt with all aspects of purchasing, leasing and registering aircraft, worldwide. His specialty is in areas of the world where others have no experience or simply are unwilling to go. A few of the countries, among many more worldwide, where he's guided or been involved with numerous successful aviation projects are Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Haiti, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, Jamaica, Tanzania, Zanzibar, South Africa and the United States.

 

C.A.’s work with air service start-ups typically involves business planning, the creation of extensive financial models and assistance with raising start-up capital… such as a large multi-aircraft start-up in Africa that he’s involved with on an ongoing basis. This particular client is introducing an entirely new type of aircraft in African commercial aviation operations and C.A. has been responsible for developing all the financial modeling for the project and a large part of its business planning and capital raise.

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He has extensive regulatory experience in numerous countries and has successfully solved regulatory and Civil Aviation Authority problems ranging from the unlawful stoppage of aircraft in Somalia to the liberation of an aircraft crew in the Dominican Republic, the implementation of scheduled air services in several different Caribbean nations, and the registration of US aircraft to non-US Citizens through the creation and management of FAA approved Aircraft Voting Trusts. He has also represented numerous clients with the Florida Department of Revenue in matters of unfair aircraft taxation, where he has obtained favorable actions resulting in multimillion dollar tax savings to these clients. He also was the primary author of the winning bid for a USAID contract in excess of $500 million and has authored several other successful bids for highly lucrative governmental contracts.

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Having resided in Africa twice (Nigeria and Uganda), he is well-versed in overcoming the challenges that are faced by an aviation practitioner in many developing nations and has been a key presenter at numerous international aviation conferences in countries such as Aruba, Kazakhstan, Ethiopia and the United States.

In addition to his work with Premium Aviation, C.A. is a non-attorney, adjunct member of a prestigious law firm in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he assists in all matters of aviation litigation and is a key member of the team developing the firm’s aviation litigation practice.

Justin was born into international aviation and has spent most of his adult life as an aviation professional. He's previously served as a Manager of two different air cargo and regional passenger operations with service to the Caribbean; as Vice President and then Senior Vice President of two different, large, multinational governmental aviation contractors, during which time he expanded their operations into Africa and worked extensively with operations on behalf of USAID in Afghanistan; and most recently as COO and co-founder of a large, multi-national aviation contractor with operations in Afghanistan, South Sudan, Somalia and Ukraine on behalf the United Nations, the UN's World Food Programme, as well as several other EU and US governmental entities. This company also performed charter operations throughout Africa with missions such as carrying Ebola medical supplies to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and some charter missions to various destinations in Europe.

 

Justin's forte is being the first boots on the ground in any new or potential destination, no matter how underdeveloped it might be. He's the trusted partner that  we call on to lead our advance teams, establish initial relationships and plan for and procure critical infrastructure. We like to call him our "tip of the spear" guy. There's really no place that Justin is unwilling to go, and no project that he won't tackle with zeal. Justin's also quite adept at leading ongoing operations in the various countries in which we've worked.

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Justin graduated from Delta State University with a degree in Aviation Administration.