With the A500 in the background, Rick Adam gives an amusing account of his history to the crowd.
Over 300 guests attended Airport Journals’ open house on June 15, giving area businesses and community leaders the opportunity to visit Airport Journals’ unique hangar offices at Centennial Airport. Outback Steakhouse, Tonti’s Pizzeria and Chicago Mike’s provided food, and Highlands Wine Sellers featured some unique wines for a wine tasting.
Robert Olislagers, Centennial airport director, was given the 2005 Top Flight Business Leadership Award, and Rick Adam, founder and chairman of Adam Aircraft, was awarded Airport Journals’ Michael Chowdry Aviation Entrepreneur of the Year Award. In a little over five years, Airport Journals has gone from one airport community newspaper, Centennial Aviation & Business Journal, to 11.
Special guests included Nick Carter, Channel 9, and Mike Silva, who landed Channel 4’s news helicopter in front of Airport Journals’ hangar and visited with Airport Journals columnist Cliff Robertson.
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- Robert Olislagers holds the microphone as Cliff Robertson presents his award to Rick Adam.
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- Adam Aircraft Founder Rick Adam accepted Airport Journals’ Michael A. Chowdry Aviation Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
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- Cliff Robertson, AJ columnist, and Di Freeze, editor, prepare to meet visitors.
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- Airport Journals Publisher Jerry Lips congratulates Robert Olislagers.
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- John Brackney, president of the South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce, presented Centennial Airport Director Robert Olislagers with Airport Journals’ 2005 Top Flight Business Leadership Award.
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- Attendees including Gil Utterback (center) and Ron Knudsen (right) laugh as Rick Adam tells about one of his parents’ first flights together, and how his wife has informed him that airplane “geeks” are worse than computer geeks, since computer geeks event
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- Justin Lips, national sales director, with his son, Keagan Lips.
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- Natalie Guinovart prepares to pour guests a sample of Emilio Bulfon’s Piculit-Neri, Highlands WineSeller’s bestselling wine, as Bob Shay shares information with Dr. Douglas Tippin and Randal Straus.
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- Jerry Lips awards his mother, Wilma Merhar, jet show registration manager, with a kiss on the cheek.
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- L to R: Dick Hansen, AJ Board of Directors, visits with Jerry Jones and Julieanne Jones.