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PrivateSky billed as center of excellence for Gulfstream

The idea of opening a new Gulfstream repair station in southern Florida was evolutionary for Vincent Wolanin.

By David A. Lombardo • Contributor

August 11, 2008

The idea of opening a new Gulfstream repair station in southern Florida was evolutionary for Vincent Wolanin. Its roots go back to Wolanin’s days as chairman of TopNotch Entertainment, a rock-and-roll management company that worked with groups such as Aerosmith, Kiss, John Mellencamp and many others.

In February 1998 Wolanin was returning from Europe with his family on an airline flight. “We sat on that airplane for hours and my wife and children decided that flying commercially was a drag and not for us any longer,” he told AIN. “We decided as a family that we were going to get our own jet. All the way back from Germany we sat there throwing out ideas for a name for a proposed company that would own, operate and maintain the aircraft. We finally hit upon the idea of PrivateSky.”

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