14 February, 2019: Cutter Aviation, an aviation service company, has promoted David Clifton to the position of Director of Technical & Flight Support Services. David’s new role as Director will be supervising all aspects of Cutter Aviation’s 145 Repair Stations in Phoenix, AZ (PHX); Addison (ADS) and San Antonio (SAT), TX and Denver, CO (APA) as well as overseeing 135 Charter operations and the Client Relationship team. Previously, he served as the Director of Maintenance for two other air carriers.
David has an experience of more than 30 years as an A&P mechanic working on numerous airframes throughout the years. In 2005, he joined Cutter Aviation as the Director of Maintenance for the Charter Department.
From a very young age, David was passionate about all things aviation. He took a job sweeping hangars at the age of 12 just to be around aircraft. There he started helping mechanics with small tasks and washing aircraft between flights. After a year he started learning sailplanes. At the age of 14 he flew his first solo and went on to get rest of his ratings Airplane SEL/MEL, Gliders, Hot Air Balloons, Airframe and Powerplant Mechanic and he held a CTO card for ATC.
Following family tradition, David also served in the United States Army as a UH-1H (Huey) mechanic/crew chief and later on as an Air Traffic Controller. He focused his career on aircraft maintenance after serving in the military.