Jet Aviation Marks 50th Anniversary

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Jet Aviation, which began business in Switzerland in 1967, is celebrating half a century in business. Now owned by General Dynamics, its history goes back further than 50 years to a decision by young Carl Hirschmann in 1940 to leave Paris for the U.S. ahead of the German blitzkrieg. In New York City...
Kirby Harrison

Kirby Harrison is a freelance writer for The Weekly of Business Aviation, Business & Commercial Aviation and others in the Informa publishing chain.

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