Mansfield's King Aviation a Family Affair
The story of King Aviation an unlikely set of circumstances.
Kelley Dineen never intended to work in the flight industry, you could say she just kind of fell into it. Dineen, president of King Aviation, said she originally went to Johnson and Wales University in Providence for hotel and restaurant management, but in the recession of 1991, there wasn’t much work in those fields. She said her father, already an accomplished pilot and was running the flight school, asked her to join the business. “When I graduated, no one was hiring,” she said. “I took the summer and waitressed down the Cape, but come September, I had to have a job and he said go help your brother.” The flight school has a small number of its own airplanes for instruction. Dineen said that she and her brother, David, run the flight …
Louis Andrews
9:14 am on Monday, January 7, 2013
The airport has an open house every fall. Last year we also hosted the Touch-a-TrucK event. Watch the papers or this web site for the dates and time. L. Andews, Mansfield Airport Commission. more ›