Joining me today to discuss the company system and more importantly the value it provides to business aircraft owners is one of Bluetail’s co-founders, Stuart Illian. provides an aircraft record management system built for business aviation that allows aircraft owners and operators, the ability to digitize and organize their aircraft paper records including logbooks, maintenance records, manuals, and other related documents. I am Tony Kioussis, president of Asset Insight, and your host. Welcome to another Asset Insight podcast covering the aircraft ownership life cycle. Stuart is an FAA commercial and instrument-rated pilot who graduated from Ohio State University with a BSBA in Accounting and minor in Aviation Management. In 2018, Stuart reunited with Roberto Guerrieri – whom he met at Apple – to form Bluetail, an Aircraft Records Management SaaS platform, which is headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ. The company is now part of FlightSafety Textron Aviation Training. He played a key role in growing their client base and forging partnerships, culminating in the company being acquired by Textron’s TRU Simulation + Training division in 2014. In 2012, Stuart sold his interest in LOFT and became Director of Business Development for ProFlight, another Business Aviation Training Center based in Southern California. He then helped lead the effort to build/grow a new simulator training business under the LOFT brand. In 2003, Stuart purchased Flight Crew Systems – a company that offered in-aircraft Citation type rating training. XOOM was eventually acquired by GE and became known as NBC Internet. Stuart was part of “the original XOOM”, an Internet start-up that had a highly successful initial public offering in 1998. He has held key positions at notable Fortune 500 companies which include Apple, Lockheed Martin, Deloitte and Textron. Stuart Illian is a senior business executive with 35 years of experience in aviation, high-tech and numerous start-ups.
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