December 20, 2022
Barbara and Jerry King – King Aerospace’s founder and chairman – met on a blind date during a visit to Dallas from her hometown of New Orleans not long after her graduation from nursing school. She fell in love with Dallas and then with Jerry. Thirty-seven years of marriage later, they’ve lived the “for better, […]
December 8, 2022
King Aerospace recently completed, for the first time, installation of performance-enhancing elliptical winglets on a Cessna Citation X at its modification, maintenance and paint facility in Ardmore, Oklahoma. King Aerospace is now an approved installer for the modification built by Winglet Technology, a Wichita, Kansas, company that has designed winglets for Citation aircraft since 2002. […]
December 5, 2022
Elvis arrived in a sequined jumpsuit, and Marilyn wore that legendary white dress while singing “Happy Anniversary, Mr. President” to Jarid King, and “Happy Birthday” to his father and founder, Jerry King. Longtime King Aerospace team members came to the party, too, as did team members executing our mission from distant Southcom and Africom military […]
November 17, 2022
Whether it’s the front door of a home or a VVIP Boeing Business Jet, any experienced painter knows that prep work makes the difference in how a paint job turns out and holds up. From the first coat stripped from an aircraft to the last coat applied for a colorful design, King Aerospace’s paint team […]
November 10, 2022
You probably won’t see the leader of a large defense contracting firm or any other publicly traded company put on a big heart-shaped costume, whether it’s at a meeting of BBJ operators or during a visit to a children’s hospital. But Jerry King, founder and chairman of King Aerospace, often does. Partly it’s because he […]
