Background of Ruud Heinen, Director

As son of a well-known Royal Dutch Navy pilot Ruud started his aviation career in the germ at home. His first position in aviation was one in the Royal Dutch Air Force in 1979 as a helicopter engineer, which he left in 1986 to work for a private company. Meanwhile he started the foundation of the Dutch Spitfire Flight with three other aviation minded persons. This foundation bought and restored the Spitfire MK 732, which is currently still flying in The Netherlands. In 1993 Ruud bought two Bell 204’s in Spain together with a Schreiner colleague, sold one to the USA and restored the other one to flying condition. This restored Bell with registration N 98049 flew several years from Naval Air Station De Kooy as ex-MLD AB 204 B “220”, attending the Air show circuit ending up in Chile as fire fighting helicopter, for which purpose it is still used. However, it is painted in ‘fire red’ and lost its navy colours. After seven years flying off shore for Schreiner, Ruud joined the Royal Dutch Air force as a Search and Rescue commander on the Agusta Bell 412 from Leeuwarden. In 2000 he left the Air force and had a flying position as a Learjet A 36 pilot and L-39’s captain. Both aircraft were operated in a target tow company, for training purposes of Navy crews on Navy vessels. In this firm he was shortly involved in the setup of a Dutch Hawker Hunter, which the company did not succeed because of difficulties in law permissions of operating these aircraft free in Dutch air space. Ruud left the target tow company in September 2004 and started flying helicopters again in Qatar, soon dispatched in Iran as Base Manager and in 2005 he joined Canadian Helicopters Global division, for which he is now flying in Atyrau, Kazakhstan. 

Background of Jeanet Heinen, Commercial Director

Jeanet started her aviation career as an assistant of the flight service department at Schiphol Airport in which simulator trainings, hotel bookings and licence matters passed her desk every day. She changed office to work for the managing director of KLM ERA Helicopters at Den Helder Airport as an Office Manager. After two years she started high schooling in marketing and public relations and choose for a new position in promoting KLE in printed matters, arranging circuit flights together with the Avidrome from Schiphol Airport and she filled the open spaces in the offshore helicopter schedule by selling onshore flights to companies. In this period Jeanet met Ruud Heinen and they got married. After fusion of Schreiner and KLE Jeanet decided to start a new job within a media company, where she was traffic manager in marketing and pr-projects for four years. These days she is doing marketing affairs for a life and health care institution of physically and mentally disabled. Besides that she runs the office of CAF.