W W Boisture Jr

Boisture has more than 30 years of aviation experience. Prior to his current role with Hawker Beechcraft Corporation, he was the President of Intrepid Aviation, a privately held commercial aircraft lessor, and a senior advisor for aerospace at The Carlyle Group. Boisture is the former President of NetJets, Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation and British Aerospace Corporate Jets (a forerunner to Hawker), and the former Chairman and CEO of Butler Aviation. Boisture was a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and graduated from the USAF Fighter Weapons School and the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School (“Topgun” school). He was honorably discharged as a major after 11 years of service. Boisture was on the board of directors for the Association of Graduates of the Air Force Academy for eight years and continues as trustee of the Falcon Foundation and as a member of World Presidents’ Organization. He earned a bachelor’s in engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy and a master’s in business administration from the University of New Haven. Boisture has a commercial instrument rating and continues to be an active pilot, logging more than 500 hours in the past two years.