Premier Aviation Leasing and Flight Services
Premier Aviation Leasing and Flight Services

Our Team

D&J Aviation, LLC's leaders are highly-trained, experienced and dedicated to the success of our business.

Justin Ash - President, Flight Operations

 

Justin Ash is an aviation specialist with over fifteen years of experience in aviation training, management, and flight operations. Currently a Captain and Airline Transport Instructor for a major US airline, Justin maintains his knowledge and skills to the highest level.  Justin's previous experience includes working as an Assistant System Chief Pilot for a 121 airline, and a Chief Pilot and Director of Operations for a 141 flight operation.  He holds multiple type ratings along with ATP Single/Multi-engine instrument ratings and maintains licenses as a Certified Flight Instructor, CFII, MEI, and AGI.   Justin truly enjoys aviation - the flying, the teaching, the people, and the business.  
 
A believer in the power of positive thinking, Justin regularly develops new ideas to more effectively assist people in achieving their aviation goals.  Justin's favorite flights are those with his beautiful family. 
 

 

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.