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John G Goris - Owner & President, M1, S AME
John started in aviation maintenance in 1988 and obtained his AME licences in 1993.  He spent the first 10 years of his career providing maintenance to Cessna 337’s, Aerocommander 500’s and other various aircraft at Hicks & Lawrence Ltd.  In 1998, John started Purple Hill Air Ltd. from his home based hangar and runway in Thorndale, Ontario.  John has extensive experience maintaining Cessna, Piper and various homebuilt aircraft.

Dave DuBrule – full time licenced M1 AME
Dave started in aviation maintenance at Purple Hill Air in 2001 after completing his training at Centennial College. In 2006, Dave earned his M1 AME rating and is considered our in-house sheet metal expert.

Michael Haygarth - full time apprentice, Commercial IFR and American licenced Pilot

Paul Noble – full time apprentice

Gwen Barker – full time apprentice


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  22678 Purple Hill Rd, Thorndale, ON, CANADA
  519-461-1964