Baker Aviation
12-27-2025 | 05:20 AM
#41
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Captjns,
What you described I suspect did and does happen with some 135 operators. I've been with the CEO shortly after he took over Baker in Jul '22...started with 3 and as he said, he would not add a 4th airplane until he was making money with 3. That has been the MO here for the last 3.5 years. He brought on 2 CLs initially and for a year tested the waters...it has proven beneficial enough to make the agreement with FJ for 20 more. The speed at which these new airplanes come on the certificate is dependent upon training slots (which Baker is not having difficulty in getting support from Flight Safety) for the new pilots.
No doubt it is a balancing act of having bodies match airplane and then having sales match those expectations. If past is predictive of future events, I say Baker will do well in that area.
What you described I suspect did and does happen with some 135 operators. I've been with the CEO shortly after he took over Baker in Jul '22...started with 3 and as he said, he would not add a 4th airplane until he was making money with 3. That has been the MO here for the last 3.5 years. He brought on 2 CLs initially and for a year tested the waters...it has proven beneficial enough to make the agreement with FJ for 20 more. The speed at which these new airplanes come on the certificate is dependent upon training slots (which Baker is not having difficulty in getting support from Flight Safety) for the new pilots.
No doubt it is a balancing act of having bodies match airplane and then having sales match those expectations. If past is predictive of future events, I say Baker will do well in that area.
12-27-2025 | 10:08 AM
#42
Baker Aviation Citation X
Joined: Mar 2005
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From: Citation X
Yes… my comments were an abridged version of the work it takes from discussions with our POI/PMI, pre-purchase research, actual purchasie, the process through, manpower, the aircraft being added to the certificate. Those were the good old days. I hope the process is less arduous these days.
The reputation one has any as an operator with company’s POI/FSDO sets the tone long term on the length of time conformities take to complete.
BAKER’s mx team has shown repeatedly the documents, systems, checks, logs for our ever expanding fleet will be ready to go whenever they receive a request to conduct their inspections.
12-28-2025 | 01:07 PM
#43
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