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JUN-JUL 2016

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JUNE/JULY 2016 AviationPros.com 13 COVER STORY Revolutionizing GSE leasing and asset management. www.xcedaviation.com 425 Nor th Mar tingale Road, 8th floor Schaumburg, Illinois 60173 844.213.9233 solutions@xcedaviation.com Now Servicing the U.S. and Canada. Looking for ways to make doing business easier and more profitable? Then you'll want to take a closer look at Xce¯d. Xceˉ d Aviation Services is a single source provider of flexible GSE financing and customized asset management services, including: We're also experts at uncovering hidden assets, which allows us to provide a wide range of incremental asset management service... services most banks and other lessors simply can't or won't offer. • Single investor financing • Short- and long-term lease financing • Short- and long-term rentals • Used GSE trade-ins • Sale and leaseback • Buying and selling inventory • Equipment refurbishment • Refurbishment financing AviationPros.com/11535271 year here in Austin, Texas," Joe Daniel, a line service technician and member of Bluth's team, said in his nomination of Bluth. "He's achieved a true team environment at Austin Atlantic." Leadership Bluth is certainly young for someone in his role at 33-years-old, but the growth he's taken on in 13 years on the ramp has encour- aged Atlantic management. "It has been really neat to see somebody become the leader that he has grown into," Brice Allen, general manager of Atlantic Avi- ation Austin, says. "He has evolved to the operations manager of a tier-one base, which is what we call one of the larger bases." According to Bluth, the safety aspect is his most important job and his main responsibility is to keep his team well-equipped to succeed by giving them the tools they need to stay safe in an environment as physically demanding and dynamic as the ramp. "I think when we're just employees, we start to think about ourselves, and when we become leaders we start to think about others," Allen says. "To see him come here as a young man who was engaged, and then to have a child and become married and get a home. That all became a part of who he is, with how he started seeing and deal- ing with his staff and his employees, and understanding how important everything is to taking care of the people who work underneath you." Daniel, in his nomination of Bluth, cited the major equipment improve- ments that Bluth has made in his frst year as operations manager. Daniel wrote that Bluth provided two refu- elers, new GSE tires, a drivable GPU, tool updates and oversaw both hangar renovations and line shack improvements. "We coordinate with a lot of the other sister locations that are nearby, so I worked with Houston this year, got an additional fuel truck moved over," Bluth says. "We'll babysit that, take care of all the quality control while it's under our care, and then we'll return it to them when they're ready to have it back." In addition, Atlantic Austin took in a number of GSE pieces from various California locations as carbon regulations have pushed them out of service on the West Coast. With a not-insignifcant amount of maintenance and updating, suddenly the Austin location has what's essentially a brand new piece of GSE. "Unfortunately they sit for extended periods because of those regulations, and that sea air really does a number on them," Bluth says. "We've really worked hard at the appearance, and to bring that equipment up to standard and really function well to support these guys because Lord knows they can't do their job if they don't have the equipment there for them."

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