King Air Experience – Personal Touch Service

Our headquarters, in Moline, IL, is a one-stop shop for all of your King Air needs. Elliott Aviation is an authorized King Air Service Center for all models. Our company has been working on King Airs for over 50 years and many of our dedicated factory-trained technicians have 20 or more years of experience. We can handle anything from simple inspections to complicated modifications, structural repairs, strakes, lockers, winglets, engine overhauls; we do it all! Please take some time and get to know our senior technicians.

Jeff Dean – King Air Supervisor

Gaining experience in the Marine Corps, Jeff has 21 years of aviation knowledge, 13 of those years have been with Elliott Aviation. He loves to troubleshoot to solve customer issues. Along with troubleshooting, Jeff has a passion to train others on King Airs.

Ed Simmering – Service Structures Team Lead

Ed started 15 years ago with Elliott Aviation. With his knowledge of King Airs and other aircraft, he enjoys molding newer technicians to perform at the highest level of quality possible on a customer’s aircraft. Ed is very proud to have a crew that will work hard and consistently to meet customers’ requirements. Ed also has a passion for installing winglets, winglockers and other structural modifications and repairs.

Greg Stamp – Aviation Structures Crew Chief

Greg has 19 years in the aviation industry, five and a half of them at Elliott Aviation. King Air makes up 75 percent of the airframes he works on and his favorite retrofit is the Garmin G1000 installation. “It’s challenging and has lots of pieces and you have to know where it all goes.” Greg has completed around 70 Garmin G1000 retrofits since last year.

Doug Benson – 2nd SHift King Air Team Lead

After receiving his A&P license from Red Stone College in 2012, Doug came to Elliott Aviation to be a part of our King Air team. He states that “the team works well together, we know what needs to be done and we do it.”