Jet Star offers diversified services while specializing in aviation products

摘要

Although Jet Star Inc of Indianapolis, Indiana, primarily serves airports with aviation fuel, if s not unusual to find the company's tanker rigs making their way up Virginia mountains to fill tanks for powered hang gliders. Or, when forest fires rage in the Northwest, Jet Star sees that helicopters and C-130 air transports used in the firefighting stay refueled. "There are a lot of unique things that we are doing," says Darryl Guiducci, president and owner of the company. Once a year Jet Star rigs make their way into the mountains where they provide fuel for the hang-gliding aficionados. In some of the steep mountain roads in Virginia, a wrecker has to pull the tractor-trailer unit through the switchbacks because tires lose traction. But if s the public, private, and military airports that make up 75 percent of the Jet Star operation. Guiducci's connection to airports began in the early 1970s when he signed on at the Indianapolis airport as a licensed aircraft mechanic. Eventually, he became an airport operations director.