D&J Aviation, LLC's leaders are highly-trained, experienced and dedicated to the success of our business.
Justin Ash - President, Flight Operations
Benjamin Bohlman - President, Compliance & Regulation
Benjamin Bohlman is regulation and standardization specialist with experience in airline management, standardization, and training. Currently flying for a major US airline, he has extensive experience as a department manager, simulator instructor and check airman, working with the FAA coordinating regulatory compliance within multiple manuals as manual sponsor, and working with DoD and IOSA for audit compliance. Always looking for new solutions to common problems, Ben has innovated millions of dollars of cost efficiencies and streamlined procedures at the airlines for which he has worked.
Ben enjoys his work in General Aviation immensely, as it provides him and his family so much more opportunity for new experiences and memories than the rigidity of scheduled airline flying.
David Carus - Company President, CEO
David Carus is a Shareholder and Registered Patent Attorney at Allen Dyer P.A. and practices in the areas of patent prosecution. His experience includes electrical and electronic equipment including, for example, mobile wireless communications devices, antennas, finger biometric sensing devices, display technologies, and haptics, cables, laser and optical devices, test equipment, radar devices, semiconductor devices, mechanical devices, and Internet related inventions, for example, e-commerce, digital couponing, and Internet of Things (IOT) systems.
Dave's professional experience includes Test and Evaluation for defense contractor Northrop Grumman. As part of the flight test crew at Northrop Grumman, Dave designed and tested aerial ground surveillance and battle management systems on the Joint Stars E8-C Aircraft platform.
Dave also has experience as a technical consultant in the areas of hardware/software integration, web operations, and data recording systems.
Dave is a private pilot, and when not working on patent stuff, enjoys flying for breakfast, ice hockey, and spending time with his family.