Sales Team

Pat McHaffey is a former Fleet Air Arm officer, Lord Hanson's personal helicopter pilot for 29 years and Chief Executive of Air Hanson, from 1970 until its sale in September 1999.  During his time at Air Hanson the company became the UK Beechcraft dealer as well as representing Sikorsky, McDonnell-Douglas and Bell helicopters, and grew to manage 40 aircraft, 5 of which were for various Head of States.  They became the largest corporate fleet operators of Sikorsky S76 helicopters in the World, providing a very personal and dedicated service to its customers. Since then he has headed up numerous companies such as FAS and more recently Masterjet UK, a sales and management company located at Farnborough.  Pat's intimate working knowledge of helicopters coupled with long experience of a brand portfolio tells you all you need to know about his up-to-the-minute knowledge of manufacturers, their aircraft and advances in corporate provision.  He is very focused on personal service, and over the past 6 years Pat has created close relationships with a number of growing companies in the UK and the former CIS, where he now acts as an aviation advisor for them on all aircraft acquisitions and disposals.

Nick McHaffey recently headed up the pre-owned worldwide sales department at ExecuJet Aviation Group which had a team of 20 Sales Directors spread Worldwide.  During his 6 years with the company he achieved record sales and he was instrumental in developing the company's pre-owned sales strategy and marketing.  Prior to this, he worked at Euro Aircraft Trading and helped to form Air Hanson Aircraft Trading and finally headed up the sales office for Farnborough Aviation Sales. A marketing expert and one of the most creative thinkers in the fragmented, fast-changing world of pre-owned sales, he helped develop the software that gives Viation its edge in sourcing aircraft or finding buyers, adding the key dimension of comparability to availability for a proper match of need, price and specification. His background is in the large corporate jet market such as the Challengers, Falcons and Global Express and he has already established sales for Viation in the large jet category.

They are backed by a highly experienced research team who monitor the specialist and financial media for developments and compliment the Viation contact database with intelligent software that matches buyers and sellers worldwide.