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Article: Change in wings for Flight Options.(Cover Story)(management changes possible)
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- Crain's Cleveland Business
- Article date:
- January 6, 2003
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Byline: JEFF STACKLIN
Flight Options LLC, a Richmond Heights company that sells fractional ownership interests in new and used corporate jets, is about to go through an ownership change itself that could lead to the removal of CEO Kenn Ricci from the pilot's seat.
A majority interest in the company will shift from local investors to Lexington, Mass.-based defense contractor Ray-theon Co., according to Robert Pinkas, a Flight Options board member and managing partner of the Beachwood venture capital firm Brantley Partners.
Raytheon's fractional aviation division, Raytheon Travel Air, merged with Flight Options Inc. last March to form Flight ...