FOUNDER OF JET AVIATION IS DEAD AT AGE 74

Carl W. Hirschmann, founder of Jet Aviation, and its chairman and president until 1990, died on April 28. He was 74. Since Jet Aviation was founded in Switzerland in 1967, it has become one of the largest business aviation full-service companies, employing more than 1,700 people in 25 facilities...

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