RVL Senior Management Team
Dave Connor
Chief Executive
Function and tasks
As Chief Executive I have overarching responsibility for the business and its regulatory approvals. I have many years of experience in specialist aviation market segments including survey and surveillance, passenger, and cargo transportation. Most of my career has been in operations management and in commercial facing roles. I started in aviation as an operations officer for Air Atlantique in 2006, have an MBA awarded by the University of Hertfordshire and am on the Board of the Air Charter Organisation. I am also engaged with both the CBI and the Worshipful Company of Coachmakers, an active livery investing in young people with a focus on engineering.
Customer focus
RVL comprises a team of passionate people, which I am proud to lead, with a commitment to service. This commitment is what makes our team so great. With a wide and extensive breadth of experience across the business, we are able to offer a unique and authentic value proposition to current and prospective customers.
Mark Adamson
Finance Director
Function and tasks
As Finance Director, I have responsibility for the Finance function of the group. This involves providing a service to stakeholders internally and externally to customers alongside supporting the growth plans of the business. I have worked as a Finance Director in Aviation for 13 years and have previous experience from different sectors, including logistics and shipping, which gives me a broad industry perspective.
Customer focus
My priorities are to provide timely accurate financial information both to the team within RVL and also to support the needs of our supply chain and customers.
Richard Baker
Head of Operations
Function and tasks
I have overall responsibility for safety and regulatory compliance of flight operations at RVL. Our pilots report to me and it is my job to ensure that flight and training standards are maintained and achieved. I spend three or four days a week on the ground and try to fly myself at least once a week to maintain my skills. I started in the aviation industry in 2001 as a cadet with RVL’s forerunner company Air Atlantique, I have held roles covering most aspects of the company’s operations and started flying commercially in 2004. I have been the nominated person for Flight Operations since 2007.
Customer focus
I work closely with our customers to instil confidence about the conduct of flights and RVL’s capabilities which allows them to concentrate on their journey or the job at hand. My primary responsibility is safety and to ensure the flight team always performs in a compliant, efficient and effective manner to meet our customer needs.
Adam Sweeney
Technical Director
Function and tasks
I am responsible for continued airworthiness for the RVL operated fleet as Technical Director. My team and I are responsible for establishing, managing and fulfilling the aircraft maintenance programmes on all of RVL’s various aircraft types for both Part 145 and Part M, monitoring fleet reliability, ensuring regulatory compliance, working with aviation design companies regarding mission specific aircraft modifications, management of aircraft technical records and planning all scheduled maintenance events from a simple tyre change to a turbine engine overhaul. As the nominated postholder with the UK CAA, I am the appointed Continued Airworthiness Manager and Airworthiness Review Signatory for RVL Aviation and have the tremendous privilege of confirming that an aircraft is airworthy.
Customer focus
Through a combination of extensive experience with RVL types and strategic planning, my aim is to achieve the minimum amount of aircraft downtime and the minimum number of maintenance visits to maximise aircraft availability and utilisation without any detriment to dispatch reliability or flight safety. This is accomplished through comprehensive scheduling and extended fleet monitoring across a number of elements ranging from oil usage to engine performance parameters. Such a thorough and complex measure gives our customers the confidence that flights will go ahead when they need them to, and maintenance events are streamlined to be both efficient and economic.
Jackie Welburn
Head of HR
Function and tasks
As Head of HR, I have responsibility for the people functions of the group. This involves working closely with the senior management team on the people strategies for our business to support our market plans and customer requirements, whilst leading the engagement of our employees and attracting new talent into the business to support our future needs. I have previous experience in various sectors including engineering, construction, IT and pharmaceuticals, in SMEs and larger corporations.
Customer focus
My priority is our people, this is in partnership with the senior management team and the needs of the business to engage and develop our existing employee group whilst attracting future talent.
RVL Aviation is a specialist aviation services provider based at East Midlands Airport. Formed after a management buyout in 2007, the company began re-locating its core business from Coventry Airport to East Midlands Airport in autumn 2010 following completion of its state-of-the-art purpose built hangar and maintenance facility.
Operating and maintaining its own fleet of aircraft, RVL Aviation provides services to a range of private and public sector clients and offers expertise in areas as diverse as aerial surveillance and survey, passenger and cargo ad hoc and long-term charter, temporary and permanent aircraft modifications for project work and aerial spraying of pollution dispersants. RVL Aviation and its wholly-owned operating subsidiaries are the holders of various UK, European and US regulatory approvals to conduct almost all types of aerial activity and full maintenance on a wide range of aircraft and components. These include EASA AOC and CAA Type A Operating licence, Part 145, Part M, Approved Training Organisation and Dangerous Goods approvals.
Fleet
RVL Aviation operates the following aircraft:
- 4 x Beechcraft B200 King Air
- 1 x Beechcraft 260 King Air
- 6 x Reims-Cessna F406
