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Banyan Celebrates 30-Year Anniversary

Written by thomas · Filed Under Aeronautics News 

March 6, 2009

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Fort Lauderdale, FL – Located at Ft. Lauderdale Executive Airport, Banyan Air Services, Inc. is proud to announce 30 years of aviation excellence.

“It has been my sincere privilege over the years to grow with our teammates as we rally around clearly defined goals, strictly adhere to our values and passionately pursue excellence in the way we serve our customers and our community,” stated Don Campion, Banyan’s founder.

Banyan began in 1979 in a small hangar as a little maintenance facility serving local charter companies that operated a few piston aircraft.  In 1985 Banyan teamed up with Holland Builders, a hangar developer, which became the property side of the equation while Banyan grew its aviation services.

Over the years, Banyan expanded in size and capabilities by adding FBO services, aircraft sales and management, turbine airframe and engine maintenance, avionics installations, aircraft parts distribution, Hangar63 (Banyan’s aviation store), and Tropicaero.com (Banyan’s on-line store).  Recently, two major accomplishments included Banyan’s new award-winning, two-story FBO terminal building and the opening of Jet Runway Café.

Today, Banyan is a 24-hour, full-service fixed base operation, with more than 1 million square feet of hangar and office space within an 85-acre aviation complex.  Banyan employs more than 150 aviation professionals who cater to aircraft owners and operators from Central and South America, the Caribbean, Bahamas, and the USA.

“Our future plans include further expansion of our capabilities in the maintenance and avionics divisions, investing in more advanced trouble-shooting equipment and tooling, while always maintaining our commitment to training.  We estimate moving into an additional 40,000 square feet of hangar space this year,” said Campion.

Over the years, Banyan Air Service has been consistently voted a top U.S. FBO in Professional Pilot magazine’s survey and in 2008 was voted #1 Best Independent and #2 Best overall U.S. FBO.

In addition to this company-wide honor, Eric Veal was voted #3 best line technician and Bruce Woodrell was voted #9 best FBO customer support representative by Professional Pilot readers.

Banyan holds FAA/EASA approval for both the avionics and maintenance shops and has approval as repair station for Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela.

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Don Campion, Banyan’s founder

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