Gareth Read

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About Gareth Read

I am experienced in aircraft repair and maintenance on many types - large commercial jets, smaller private jets, helicopters and airships. Happy to travel anywhere in U.K. and worldwide on short and long term contracts See cv below Gareth Anthony Read Flat 1 63 Church Street Oswestry, Shropshire SY11 2SZ Mob : 07969107108 email - gareth.a.read@gmail.com I specialise in Aircraft Structural Repair and have 30 years experience repairing and maintaining aircraft. I consider myself to be trustworthy and honest. I have a full clean driving license, no criminal record and keep fit. Qualifications - Aircraft Engineering - City & Guilds RAF 9 GCSE's inc English & Maths Human Factors EWIS Fuel Tank Safety Part 2 Working at Height and Working in confined spaces. Man lift license at various locations inc cherry picker and scissor lift. Companies worked for Boeing STS Heliconia Draken Dutch Coast Guard Jet Support Cobham Helicopters Textron Zurich / Paris / Valencia Magellan Aerospace Interflight. Monarch Engineering. Cessna Beechcraft Paris. Marshal Aviation services Hybrid Air Vehicles Thomas Cook Air Tanker TransAero GKN Airbus Cargolux Sunair Citation center Bombardier RAF Work History July and November 2023. Dakar, Senegal. Structural repairs on AW139 helicopters Sept 2022 - Current. Boeing Hangar at Gatwick. 737 Cargo conversions, 737 pickle fork replacements. June 2022 - STS Birmingham Cargo aircraft repair and maintenance. March -May 2022, Draken, Dutch coast guard, Caribbean AW139 structural repairs and re build. March 2022 - ZeroAvia, Kemble airport Making be-spoke components in the workshop. September - March TUI, Luton Airport Service, repair and Maintenance on 737’s October-November, Dutch Coastguard, Curasoa Structural and composite repairs on a AW139 helicopter. Aircraft experience Helicopters - Chinook, AW139 Airship - Airlander 10 Aeroplanes - Airbus 320, 321, 330, 340, 350 Air tanker Voyager Boeing 707, 737, 747, 767, 787 Hawker 125 King Air Cessna Citation Dornier 328 Lockheed C130 Tornado, Buccaneer, Hunter