- May 6, 2021, 12:18 PM
With its purchase of Oakland Air, Part 135 operator Premier Private Jets has now entered the FBO business. The Florida-based company will rebrand the facility as Premier Jet Services, and intends to use it as the springboard to build its own service provider network. (Photo: Premier Private Jets)
Stuart, Florida-based air charter provider Premier Private Jets has entered the FBO arena with its purchase of Oakland Air, one of six FBOs at Detroit-area general aviation hub Oakland County International Airport (KPTK). The full-service facility will be rebranded as Premier Jet Services.
Its nearly six-acre leasehold includes a 10,000-sq-ft terminal built in 1997 and subsequently enlarged in 2006. According to Premier CEO Josh Birmingham, a $500,000-plus terminal renovation project will begin “immediately,” modernizing and opening up the lobby, installing a new air filtration system, and adding a snooze room in the pilot lounge. Taking a page from on-field
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Experienced pilot and Oakland County businessman David Compo did not obtain an official weather briefing or file a flight plan for the final, fatal personal flight he, his wife and their son took Jan. 2.
A preliminary report released last week by the National Transportation Safety Board highlighted some oddities prior to Compo’s small plane crashing into a Lyon Township home, killing the Compo family and inflaming the other family’s residence.
Aviation experts tend to recommend the use of weather briefings and flight plans, according to Internet research.
The NTSB report details the last hour of the Compo family’s in-flight travels from Canton, Georgia.
Preliminary findings released on Michigan plane crash that killed 3 family members
Updated Jan 29, 2021;
NEW HUDSON, MI – Weather conditions and landing complications may have contributed to a January plane crash in which three Michigan residents were killed, according to a report released by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Thursday.
Pilot David S. Compo, 60, former president of the Home Builders Association of Southeastern Michigan, his wife, Michele Compo, 55, and their son, Dawson, 18, died in the crash on Jan. 2.
The plane, a Piper PA-24-250, crashed into an Oakland County home sometime before 4 p.m. in a neighborhood just west of Pontiac Trail and Grand River Avenue, in the Orchards of Lyon subdivision.