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Our History Brought to Life

Aviation
Heritage Center

of Kingman

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Our Mission

Preserve and share the history of aviation in Kingman and the surrounding area.

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Our Vision

Provide a unique place for the community to learn about and experience the history of flight.

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We are at the starting phases of construction located next to the Kingman Airport.

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Aviation Heritage Center

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The new Center is underway with conceptual drawings that already have been drafted and research into local, State, and Federal grants.

Located next to Kingman Airport

30,000 sqft facility

Architectural renderings

Permitting and Code Approval

Construction timeline

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Our Team

Our team makes this project possible through their expertise and time they are investing to see this to fruition. In the initial start up and design phase, we have an experienced group of creative business professionals that form the core of our Board of Directors. It is the mission of the group to steer the museum and education center through the tasks of master planning, building design, fund raising, and many other aspects of the mission.

Tim Gerlach

President & Director of Historical Research & Preservation

Jill Gernetzke

Director and Head of Technology

PAUL GAINES

Vice President, and Director of Education Programs

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This is only possible with the support of our Kingman Community.

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Our Mission

The Aviation Heritage Center of Kingman has been established for the purposes of facilitating the construction of an aviation museum encompassing elements of regional interest, preserving history, exploring technology, and inspiring the imagination.

About Tim

President and Director of Historical Research and Preservation, Aviation Heritage Center of Kingman

A former business owner and operations manager in the telecommunications industry, Tim has decades of experience in dealing with day-to-day issues as well as strategic planning. During his spare time, he is a pilot, photographer and aviation historian.

From a very early age in Southern California, Tim grew up with a fascination with military aviation. Attending airshows, drawing airplanes, building model kits, aviation was never far away from his thoughts. As an adult and living in Las Vegas, Nevada he became a published aviation photographer and writer. His works appeared in various books and magazines and he also published a newsletter about the activities at Nellis AFB.

With his relocation to Kingman, Arizona Tim joined the local EAA chapter, earned his private pilots license and began building his first airplane. He has since owned several aircraft, one of these is a WWI Nieuwpoort replica which has been flown in airshows, reenactments, and a variety of other events.

More recently, Tim served for a decade as the President of the Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 765. During this time, he designed and hosted a number of aviation events such as the Kingman Air Fest, as well as flew hundreds of kids during the EAA Young Eagles Flight Rallies - more than any other pilot in the chapter.

Tim now wishes to bring many of these experiences and skills to the Aviation Heritage Center of Kingman. For Tim, the creation of a facility to honor Kingman’s past and educate the younger generations in such a unique way has deep meaning and has become the mission of a lifetime.

He wishes to bring this legacy project to the people of Kingman and share with the many visitors the Center expects to see for decades to come.

About Jill

“Aviation Bug” Bite = Consuming Passion and Desire to Share with Others
In 1985, Jill Gernetzke was “bit” by the Aviation Bug when she flew to Alaska in an
airplane for the first time in her life - a small floatplane - from a country airport in
Wisconsin. With less than 10 hours of instruction, Jill soloed at night in the Land
of the Midnight sun – in a small tailwheel airplane with no lights, brakes or radios.
Ever since that first flight, she has been relentless in sharing the many different
aspects of aviation: Offered apprenticeships for aircraft mechanics, directed an
aviation camp for the State of Vermont, started a Women in Aviation, Int’l
chapter in San Diego, CA, became a Charter Member of the Association for
Women in Aviation Maintenance (Member #048), organized a 9-day trip to bring
a group of Russian WWII airwomen to San Diego and share their stories with
many groups and people, been an airport activist, barnstormed as a wingwalker
with American Barnstormers at airshows, spoken professionally at numerous
aviation events, served as a Board of Director for the Cessna 195 Club, written
technical documents for several aviation publications, conducted post-crash
analyses for the NTSB, host of the annual Red Star Pilots Association Formation
Clinic and is a current Board Member of the Aviation Heritage Center of Kingman.

Jill is the President of M-14P, Incorporated - a global aviation company which
specializes in the restoration, repair and overhaul of former Eastern Bloc engines
and aircraft. She is also an FAA-certified pilot, mechanic and inspector.

The former is a long list of involvements and accomplishments. Jill’s aviation
“history” demonstrates her passion to share aviation with others. AHCoK
provides an opportunity to do so by serving as a founding Board Member. Jill
shares the far-reaching vision of ACHoK to build a world-class facility that
becomes a bucket list destination.

About Paul

Paul A. Gaines owns and operates Alpha-Zulu Composites, LLC, at the Kingman, Arizona airport. He is both an A&P Mechanic and Private Pilot (with glider and power ratings) and has over 40 years of experience in flying and composite aircraft repair and fabrication. Paul was born and raised in aviation, taking his first flight while still in the womb. He was first introduced to gliding at the Texas Soaring Association, where he “ran” wings and ropes for gliders at the age of 10. He flew solo in a glider for the first time at age 14, and at the age of 16 he had obtained his glider pilot’s rating and began to tinker with composite sailplanes. A young Paul then spent two summers at the Glaser-Dirks Flugzeugbau GmbH factory in Germany learning aircraft composites, and later attended Auburn University and graduated from Kennesaw State University, earning a four-year degree in International Finance. He has since made a living out of his composite knowledge and skills, and currently owns, maintains, and flies 4 aircraft: An ASW-20C, a DG-800S, a Duo Discus, and a Cirrus SR22, 3 of which he rebuilt from totaled aircraft. His love of aviation history and flight science has prepped him well to be an active Board member with the Aviation Heritage Center of Kingman.

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We will get your loan ready to submit to our underwriter so that you are preapproved for your loan. This will typically be done for you before you make an offer to buy a home. Make sure you keep all the original documents for all the documentation we collect from you to prove your ability to qualify for the loan.

If you want to shop with other lenders, explain to them that you are comparing 2 or more lenders and that you will need a valid Loan Estimate so that you know exactly what the loan will cost if you decide to go with them. If the lender agrees to provide you with an official Loan Estimate, give them copies of all the documentation you provided us.

Once you have found the home you are going to buy, provide all the lenders with the property address.

Negotiate your purchase contract for the home you want to buy (we will help you with the strategy for doing that; you might want to ask the other lenders if they provide the same service).

When the Lenders submit their Loan Estimates, forward a copy to us. We belong to Mortgage Coach, an organization that educates lenders on showing clients all the loan options that are available to them and gives us access to a tool called the Total Cost Analysis. We will use this tool to compare all your Loan Estimates. (There will probably be differences in the way the lenders have structured your loan, and the Loan Comparison will help make those differences clear to you, especially in terms of the bottom-line cost of each loan option.)

If another lender has provided a valid Loan Estimate with a lower cost and we are unable to match or beat that price, you can tell the other lender to proceed with closing your loan. (Make sure the lender has already fully approved your loan – you don’t want any last-minute surprises that will jeopardize your closing.)

One you have closed your loan with the other lender, send us a copy of your loan closing statement so we can verify that the lender did not exceed the Loan Estimate they gave you and we will send you a check for $100 for your time and trouble.

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Building Project

All new Aviation Center Website

Our History Brought to Life

Aviation
Heritage Center

of Kingman

Our Mission

Our Vision

Upcoming Projects

Aviation Heritage Center

Building our new Center

Located next to Kingman Airport

30,000 sqft facility

Architectural renderings

Permitting and Code Approval

Construction timeline

Divi Block

Our Team

Tim Gerlach

Jill Gernetzke

PAUL GAINES

Get Involved

Ready To Get This Project Completed?

This is only possible with the support of our Kingman Community.

We accept cash, check, or volunteer time

Privacy Policy

Terms Of Use

Our Mission

About Tim

About Jill

About Paul

Send us a message

Here’s how it works:

Building Project

All new Aviation Center Website

Our History Brought to Life

AviationHeritage Center

of Kingman

Our Mission

Our Vision

Upcoming Projects

Aviation Heritage Center

Building our new Center

Located next to Kingman Airport

30,000 sqft facility

Architectural renderings

Permitting and Code Approval

Construction timeline

Divi Block

Our Team

Tim Gerlach

Jill Gernetzke

PAUL GAINES

Get Involved

Ready To Get This Project Completed?

This is only possible with the support of our Kingman Community.

We accept cash, check, or volunteer time

Privacy Policy

Terms Of Use

Our Mission

About Tim

About Jill

About Paul

Send us a message

Here’s how it works:

Aviation
Heritage Center