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About

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Raymond Thomas (Founder and owner of DewNorth), worked for the following facilities before he started out on his own, Morgan's Aircraft Tekoa, WA, Aircraft Refurbishers-Deer Park, WA. Then he opened DewNorth Aviation which he has operated in some capacity since 2006, maintaining a fleet of up to 59 general aviation piston and light turboprop aircraft. He has been on 76 aircraft recoveries about half of them including helicopters. He maintained a PBY Catalina, fire-fighting aircraft, from 2000 until 2008. He taught aviation maintenance at Spokane Community College from 2006 until 2013. He acted as director of maintenance for Air Spray (now Dauntless Air) of Appleton MN, maintaining a fleet of Fire Boss amphibious firefighting aircraft from 2013 until 2018. He went full time with DEW North Aviation in the spring of 2018 maintaining general aviation aircraft and independently supporting the Fire Boss fleet in the lower 48 states for individual operators. Currently, he’s working on three STC’s for Air Tractor and Fire Boss modifications.

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