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Christiansen Jet Center, family owned and operated

If the days of the family-owned and -operated FBO are a thing of the past, somebody forgot to tell Bill Christiansen and his sons, Bryan and Ken.

February 2, 2007

If the days of the family-owned and -operated FBO are a thing of the past, somebody forgot to tell Bill Christiansen and his sons, Bryan and Ken. On any given day, all three can be found hard at work at Christiansen Jet Center, a successful FBO at Richard L. Jones Airport (RVS), about eight miles south of downtown Tulsa.

It was not something Bill Christiansen set out to do. At an early age, he set his sights on a career as a pilot after his father took the family on a trip from their home in Newark, N.J., to Miami on an Eastern Airlines DC-8. “I got off the airplane and thought, ‘I’m going to be a pilot.’”

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