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INCREDIBLE AIRCRAFT SALES NUMBERS: During two and half years while operating in dual capacities as Senior Vice President and key salesperson at SSAC aircraft corporation (manufacturers of the SJ30-2 corporate twinjet) Mr. Comfort demonstrated, made presentations, negotiated and or closed the vast majority of 361 new jet aircraft sales and provided the company with the world’s largest number of solid, light jet aircraft orders in aviation history, over $2 BILLION DOLLARS in backorders, 361 aircraft.

This extraordinary number of aircraft sales in an exceptionally short time increased the company value by over $2 billion dollars and increased recognition, creditability and corporate image beyond all projections and all expectations of top management, elevating SSAC Aircraft to one of the largest, new jet aircraft manufacturers in the world in a very short time. Incredibly, 295 of the 361 sales were closed prior to receiving FAA certification, and the additional 66 sales (jumping the totals to 361 sales and over $2 billion dollars backlog) were made within just one month after receipt of the FAA Certification,

As a senior aerospace executive with major aircraft manufacturing companies he was instrumental in assisting in the hiring and training of key employees from CFO’s through Chief Engineers, and exclusively hired, trained and motivated entire aircraft sales teams, marketing teams, and initiated and developed corporate sales & marketing planning, creating strategies, developing sales and marketing business plans, providing financial and aircraft sales projections and dynamic presentations to investors and underwriters for public offerings, investments, etc., for the following three major aircraft manufacturing companies;

(1) 2002 to December 2005 - Sino Swearingen Aircraft Corporation - Senior Vice President, of all International & Domestic Jet Aircraft Sales & Marketing including, Retail, Fleet, Fractional, Government, Distributorship, Air-Taxi, etc. Reporting directly to the CEO and President, Mr. Comfort negotiated, sold, and provided over $2 BILLION dollars and 361 jet aircraft sales with this company. During his tenure, the company finished and received FAA Certification, for a new twin engine executive jet aircraft.

(2) 2001 / 2002 - Mooney Aerospace - Executive Vice President, and Executive Vice President of International and Domestic Aircraft Sales. The company manufactured and sold $.5 million dollar single engine aircraft. Mr. Comfort was instrumental in the acquisition, initial set-up and turnaround of this major aerospace corporation after it filed bankruptcy and was purchased by AASI and later renamed Mooney Aerospace Corporation.

(3) 1990 to 2002 -AASI Aircraft (Executive Vice President and General Manager, one of 10 Board Directors) number two corporate position reporting directly to the CEO / President. This company FAA Certified, manufactured and sold $1.5 million dollar propjets and designed and built a $4 million long-range 3,200 nm twinjet aircraft manufactured from Advanced Carbon Composites, cured in a nitrogen-pressurized autoclave. Mr. Comfort spearheaded this aerospace company’s virtually impossible public offering, making the presentations and assisting in all phases of finalizing an IPO, public offering on NASDAQ large and small cap, for $232 million in cash and warrants.

His background includes Billions of Dollars and hundreds of sales of piston, propjet and twinjet aircraft, public offer (IPO), private investments, etc., to individuals, corporations, distributorships, fractional, air-taxi, governments, underwriters, etc., worldwide.

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT - SINO SWEARINGEN AIRCRAFT CORP. (SSAC):

2002 to December 2005; Gene Comfort was named Senior Vice President of International and U.S. Sales and Marketing for Sino Swearingen Aircraft Corporation, manufacturers of the new SJ30-2, in 2002. Mr. Comfort provided aircraft sales for the new twinjet from sales to individuals, corporations, distributorships, etc., obtaining launch sales exceeding $1.8 Billion and 295 aircraft prior to FAA certification and he brought the total to over $2 Billion Dollars and 361 aircraft after the FAA certification.

Reporting directly to the President and CEO of Sino Swearingen Aircraft Corporation (SSAC), Mr. Comfort was responsible for every aspect of building the company worldwide jet aircraft sales and distribution, its global advertising, and all international and domestic marketing, including trade shows, news releases, hiring, training and motivating salespeople, etc. Comfort was also in charge of all promotions, rollouts and announcements, working with reporters, news releases, etc., for the multi-million dollar corporation, as well as aircraft sales to individuals, business executives, distributorships, multiple fleet sales, fractional sales, Government, military and other users.

During his tenure, the Corporation was awarded FAA certification in October 2005 for the new corporate twinjet. Comfort also used his VPR (Value Price Ratio) system to help in pricing and sales of the new jet and assisted in reviewing future aircraft designs for the company, analyzing and forecasting potential sales as well as forecasting the competitions sales and the twinjet market share for current and future aircraft sales for as far as 15 years into the future.

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL MANAGER, BOARD DIRECTOR - AASI AIRCRAFT

1990 – 2002, Mr. Comforts career includes a span of 12 years at AASI Aircraft Corporation, Long Beach California, designers, manufacturers and FAA certification of high performance, nitrogen autoclaved, graphite composite constructed, canard, high performance, propjet aircraft (Jetcruzer models 450, 500 and 650) (The model 500 is pictured left) and a carbon composite 8 passenger 3,200 nm Williams RR powered twinjet aircraft (Stratocruzer 1250), (pictured Below). Starting virtually at the beginning of the company history in 1990, his professional management levels advanced from Salesperson to Sales Manager to General Manager and to the number two position in 1996 as Executive Vice President and General Manager of AASI Aircraft, a position he maintained during his tenure through 2002.

Most significantly, he was elected to the Board of Directors of this Public Company and was a major factor on the team that successfully took the company public (IPO) on NASDAQ large and small cap for $232 million in cash and warrants in 1997. During his tenure as General Manager and Executive Vice President, AASI was awarded FAA certification for a new propjet aircraft, the JETCRUZER 450, in 1994 (the first award for a FAA Certification to a new company in over 30 years) and they also obtained the world’s first “Spin Resistant” FAA aircraft approval for the JETCRUZER 450. The company also designed a “graphite composite” Williams RR powered, 8 passenger twinjet with an incredible 3,200 nm range, (3,680 sm) that was built but not flown. Gene Comfort provided all initial aircraft sales for the Jetcruzer 450, personally obtaining launch orders exceeding $40 million and virtually all orders for the Jetcruzer 500 within two years, exceeding 200 aircraft sales, representing over a quarter of a Billion Dollars in backorders, a world record for single engine propjet aircraft sales in that short time period.

Comfort is also a pilot and he personally flew the prototypes of the Jetcruzer 450 and the model 500 propjet aircraft and created a VPR system for both aircraft and assisted in the marketing design of the highly advanced carbon composite twinjet aircraft, the Stratocruzer 1250, of which he personally completed launch sales orders valued over $100 million.

At AASI, he successfully hired, trained and led the company sales team to world-class recognition for new aircraft sales.

Throughout his leadership of the sales teams and marketing divisions for all companies, AASI, Mooney Aerospace and Sino Swearingen Aircraft, Comfort designed, developed sales and marketing strategies, presentations, advertising, aircraft brochures, specification brochures and developed, designed and implemented displays, promotions and layouts for World Aviation trade shows and attended and sold aircraft at aircraft trade shows such as; NBAA, AOPA, EAA, Oshkosh, Lakeland, the Paris Air Show, Singapore Air Show, Taipei Aerospace Show, Dayton, local shows, and others.

Comfort also used his unique VPR (Value Price Ratio) systems to help in pricing and sales of the new propjets and the Stratocruzer twinjet aircraft that he sold and he assisted in reviewing future aircraft designs for the company, including analyzing and forecasting potential sales for each design as well as forecasting the competitions sales and potential market share for current and future aircraft sales for as far as 15 years into the future.

ELECTRONICS & AIRCRAFT COMPANIES - In the mid sixties to the early seventies, Mr. Comfort created, incorporated and was owner and CEO of Aircraft Unlimited Incorporated (AU). During the seventies and late eighties Mr. Comfort was CEO and President of two privately held international sales and marketing corporations in electronic sales and manufacturing. He co-founded and served for several years as Chief Executive Officer of these privately held international electronics communication-manufacturing companies that he later added aircraft sales to and acted as salesperson and marketing head in each company.

GOVERNMENT / MILITARY - Comfort's extensive Government and military contract involvement includes personally planning, preparing and presenting numerous government and military proposals for carbon graphite composite aircraft and airframes using advanced nitrogen pressurized autoclave technology. The aircraft airframes were designed for specialized unmanned “spy aircraft” (UAV) and unmanned combat aircraft (UCAV) to top military prime contractors including, Boeing, Northrop, TRW, Lear Astronics, IAI and others.

EDUCATION - Mr. Comfort's education includes graduation from the Harvard University School of Business, Boston, MA, Officers and Presidents Executive Education Program 1997. Business and Financial studies included; Global Sales and Marketing, Business Law, Management, Finance, Acquisitions, Mergers, Psychology and extensive Case Studies. He attended the University of Minnesota with majors in Business and minor in Psychology. He also graduated from Dale Carnegie, Professional Management, Leadership and Sales Training institutes as well as other Sales Training Institutes and completed several management, advertising, finance and professional business studies including, Chase Manhattan Bank, International Letters of Credit and Finance 1986. At Carnegie Sales Training institute, he graduated at the top of his class with the number one salesperson award.

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Gene Comfort is a Federal Aviation Administration licensed pilot with over 2,000 hours. He has advanced Multi-Engine Ratings, Advanced Instrument Ground Instructor Ratings, and has piloted numerous, high-performance, aerobatic, antique, single and multi-engine propjet and multi-engine jets. Gene has also piloted early prototype and experimental aircraft of the new high performance, corporate propjet, canard aircraft the, model 450 and 500 JETCRUZER.

MISCELLANEOUS - Mr. Comfort loves meeting new people and new customers, sales and selling, marketing and thrives on heavy competition as well as going head to head in aircraft sales with the world’s largest and top aircraft manufacturing companies and their leaders. He excels in sales and marketing and in profiling and intelligence gathering of competition aircraft, and the manufacturing companies and the heads of major divisions of the competitors especially the sales and marketing Senior VP’s, Presidents and CEO’s.

Over the years he designed, updated and maintains an extensive and highly detailed unique VPR (Value Price Ratio) survey of virtually every general aviation aircraft in the world from single pistons to the Boeing Business Jet, including all total sales and pricing of all models He is well known for using his expertise and his proprietary VPR’s to substantially increase sales of aircraft and project sales forecasts of the competition and for the startup aircraft that he is working with, selling and marketing.

Aircraft profits, sales and company expansion planning are his primary focus. Excitement, experience and high motivation are his tools and the relentless drive to always come in on top as number one with first place sales in every company he has worked for are his goals. His background as a pilot and in aircraft sales and the absolute large totals of aircraft that he has sold are legendary in the new jet and propjet aircraft sales world. His sales and management experience may be the best in the world for corporate light jet aircraft and propjets and he may have made more sales than any single salesperson ever in light jet and single engine propjets in the world in a short time period.

Mr. Comfort is a very avid reader and enjoys reading virtually everything especially in aviation. He loves flying with a passion and has a FAA certified, multi-engine pilots license and Advanced Instrument, ground Instructor ratings.

He has significant hours in aerobatic flight training and he is a skydiver with numerous jumps. Mr. Comfort also received NAUI, certified scuba diver training and a diving certificate and he enjoys foil fencing, swimming and his favorite sports as well as attending major air shows and air racing events, such as the Reno Air Races.

WORLD AIRCRAFT SALES RECORDS? 361 sales and $2 Billion - This incredible number of orders may have shattered virtually every world record for sales of factory new jet aircraft for all time previous sales in the light aircraft, medium and heavy corporate twinjet aircraft industry from all manufacturers of light corporate jets, up to the world’s largest and ultra-long range corporate jets such as airliner size business jets in a short time. Mr. Comfort made virtually all of these sales in a short 2 ½ years and prior to FAA Certification.

Mr. Comfort may have also obtained a world sales record as Executive Vice President and General Manager of AASI Aircraft. Under his hiring, training, and motivation direction and the vast number of personal sales that he made, the company achieved over 200 sales of a single engine propjet priced at approximately $1.5 million each, prior to certification in less than 2 years and a large number of launch sales of a $3.9 million new corporate twinjet with a long range of 3,200 nm pictured above.

EXTENSIVE BACKGROUND WITH THREE (3) AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURING COMPANIES:

Mr. Comfort's professional background spans a history of more than 30 years of top level, senior management and sales experience as a CEO, President, Board Director, Business Owner, Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Executive Vice President and General Manager of international corporations in fields of FAA Aircraft Certification, Aircraft Manufacturing, Aircraft Sales, Aircraft Marketing, Aerospace, Government contracts, DARPA, Military bids, and sales of electronics and communications.

averaging more than 2 aircraft sales each day for that period. Orders were made under virtually impossible sales conditions; after previous certification delays, prior to delivery, prior to flight tests by customers, prior to FAA certification and under extensive odds as no new company having received FAA certification for a new jet aircraft in over 35 years prior to the SJ30-2. Under these adverse conditions, Mr. Comfort managed to obtain 295 sales prior to FAA certification. Also all sales are solid, with non-refundable cash deposits adding millions to the company’s usable cash flow.