With more than 50 years of experience in the aviation industry, Peter is an Independent Aviation Specialist, who continues to be active in planning management some years after normal retirement age. This includes maintaining aircraft technical records, defining bridging checks and calculating man-hour estimates, to mention just three. His customers include airlines, leasing companies and management specialists.

He started his career in 1959, joining the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force as an Aircraft Apprentice at the renowned No. 1 School of Technical Training, graduating in 1962. He then followed a standard military career until 1984 when he retired voluntarily to pursue his aviation interests in civilian life.

From 1984 until 1992 he was employed in a number of disciplines commencing with Airwork Limited at Bournemouth as the senior technical controller. This position was followed by a move to British Caledonian Helicopters at Aberdeen to take up the position of Deputy Technical Services Manager. These two positions provided the grounding in technical records and schedules engineering along with other experience of the aviation civilian industry. Unfortunately the value of North Sea oil dropped dramatically and he was made redundant. Not long afterwards BCAL Helicopters ceased to exist. The connection with British Caledonian Airways provided the opportunity to continue civilian aviation development when he accepted a position as a Materials Planning Engineer, looking after the Airline’s outstations as core employment but gaining valuable experience in the fields of initial provisioning and Third Party Maintenance at Gatwick. Shortly after the takeover of BCAL by British Airways he accepted a position with the then Qualitair Aviation at Stansted (later FFV Aerotech) as a Projects/Planning Engineer. Here he saw more experience in the shape of Facilities Planning (new hangar), Equipment Planning (added capability) and MRO type Materials Planning. This position was followed by a move to a sister company at Manchester as Planning Superintendent and Deputy Planning Manager.

In 1992 FFV Aerotech had become an FLS Aerospace company as a result of the shrinking industry much smaller in size. He accepted a position with the newly formed Shannon Aerospace at Shannon, Ireland, as a Planning Engineer, prior to the formal opening. He later became Senior Planning Engineer with responsibility for Boeing B757 and B767 aircraft types, leaving a few months short of formal retirement age in 2007.

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