Centennial, Airport – International Jet and Aviation Services provides private jet air charter services to over 5,000 airports across the U.S. is held a special fund raising event on Saturday November 22, 2014 at 5 p.m., for one of it’s pilots Tom Koziel at it’s corporate headquarters located at 8511 Aviator Lane Centennial, Colorado.
The event was a success and thanks to the many who attended with big hearts, Tom is well on his way to getting the much needed special prosthetic arm he needs to be able to return to work. The event raised over twenty-five thousand dollars bringing the total amount of donations to date to over fifty-six thousand! Friends of Air Life of Denver will also be holding another fund raising event to help Tom in December to reach the goal of one hundred thousand that is needed.
On July 27, 2014 Tom Koziel was working on a semi-tractor truck when he injured his left hand. Tom under went seven surgeries and endured weeks of rehabilitation following the accident but doctors were not able to save his hand.
If you’d like to help donate by either donating an item for the silent auction or monetarily, please contact Annette Koziel at 970.618.3612 or Natasha Koziel at 970.274.3424
During the event I had the opportunity to look over The Gulfstream G200 which is considered a super mid-size intercontinental business jet. It made its debut in the year 2000, two years after a prototype of the aircraft appeared.
The jet was first produced as the Galaxy business jet by Galaxy Aerospace, headquartered at Alliance Airport in Fort Worth, Texas. In June 2001, Galaxy was acquired by Gulfstream parent company General Dynamics and the aircraft was renamed the G200. he G200 can be configured for eight to 18 passengers. The aircraft has a ten-passenger configuration that includes a conference / dining table for four, with a three-seat divan opposite. The G200 has a cabin height of 6ft 3in (1.91m) and a width of 7ft 2in (2.18m), allowing cabin configurations more common in the largest business aircraft.
The G200 also delivers intercontinental capability. Range with eight passengers is 3,346 nautical miles with NBAA IFR reserves. Maximum payload is 4,800lbs. In a corporate shuttle configuration, the G200 can carry enough fuel to fly 2,710nm with NBAA IFR reserves. Its typical cruise speed is Mach 0.82. Powered by twin Pratt & Whitney Canada PW 306A engines; the G200 is fuel efficient, as well as quiet.
The G200 is fully certified for flight in all weather conditions, including known icing. Icing tests were the last certification item to be completed, with a test aircraft concluding a series of tests in natural icing conditions over Northern Europe in early December 2000.