Zelouf leaves big legacy at Jet Aviation
A man who has witnessed just about every step of business aviation’s development over the past four decades finally began a very well earned retirement ear

A man who has witnessed just about every step of business aviation’s development over the past four decades finally began a very well earned retirement earlier this year. When Carl Hirschmann set up Jet Aviation in Basel, Switzerland back in 1967, he not only took over the hangar from the failed holiday charter airline Globe Air, but also that company’s deputy technical director–Elie Zelouf.

“Life wasn’t easy at Jet Aviation in the early days,” Zelouf told EBACE Convention News. “I had many sleepless nights, wondering how the company could carry on when expected orders didn’t materialize.”