At 11 a.m. Wednesday, Kevin Camilli, a director of Shalimar- and Destin-based Grey Aviation Advisors and Solutions Inc., was anxiously waiting word on whether it was indeed his company’s plane that had gone down in Panama City.
His co-director in the company, Eli Larry Caison, had been scheduled to fly to Northwest Florida “sometime this week” from his home in West Palm Beach.
“It’s entirely possible,” the plane that crashed, killing one, could have belonged to Grey Aviation Advisors and Solutions Inc., Camilli said.
“We do not know that, but it’s entirely possible,” Camilli said. “Right now officials have not told us anything.”
“He (Caison) was a good pilot,” Camilli said. “I’m still holding out hope.”
The company’s website describes Grey Aviation Advisors and Solutions Inc. as “a small Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned business located in Shalimar, Florida, USA.”
The Florida Division of Corporations website lists an office address on Harbor Boulevard in Destin.
Its owners, the website said, are former special operations pilots “with backgrounds that include, but are not limited to, Special Mission activities, aviation instruction, safety, and development of tactics, techniques and procedures.”
The company’s work includes “airborne surveillance and special missions,” the website said.
“We deliver mission enhancement aircraft, consultancy, training, risk assessment/risk management, and physical services to supplement missions, exercises and training of US military, law enforcement, interagency, and coalition partners,” the website said.
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