William Straus Email & Phone Number

G650ER Captain (since Dec 22). Unreal airplane, great job, even better crew. I am lucky. Two years as a First Officer on the Challenger 300/350(December 2020), with nearly 1000 hours in type as of March 2022. Great airplane. Great company. Great people. Privileged to have flown the highly modified, Proline 21 King Air 350 for L3 Harris Technologies in support of ISR Special Operations missions in the Middle East. I have over 6000 hours of multi-engine turbine time and twenty-two years of professional, worldwide aviation operations in austere and combat environments. I have flown the C-145A Sky Truck to austere, dirt and grass STOL locations for airdrop, infil/exfil, and as a Combat Aviation Advisor (CAA) platform; MC-130W NVG low-level, infiltration/exfiltration (infil/exfil), airdrop, refueling tanker/receiver, Forward Area Refueling Point (FARP) and airborne helicopter tanker; MC-130H Combat Talon II radar-assisted terrain-following low-level, self- contained instrument approach, infil/exfil, airdrop, refueling tanker/receiver, FARP and airborne helicopter tanker, threat penetration platform and the C-130E low-level, All-Weather-Areal-Delivery- System formation, NVG tactical infil/exfil, and airdrop. I have global experience in planning, coordinating, and executing joint and combined coalition air and ground missions with the highest protocol. I have been assigned to leadership positions as Mission Commander on several Joint/Combined and CAA missions; Single Investigating Officer or pilot member of multiple high- level aircraft accident investigations; Lead advisor/planner to UAE, Korean, Thai, Polish and Iraqi Air Forces; Assistant Director of Operations; Chief Pilot; Chief of Training & Ground Instruction; Chief of Asian Theater Exercise Mission Planning; Flight Commander; Flight Leader; and Joint Search & Rescue Coordination Lead. I began my USAF career as a Maintenance Officer commanding over 100 personnel in F-16 back-shops and sortie generation units.

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