Didn’t this guy also go down with a company called Singleton Airways or the like?
Ryder had Fitzroy Aviation, a charter and bank running outfit I remember in the early/mid 1990s with Navajos and Metros, big blue tail with a white F in it. Yes went tits up but don't recall the circumstances.
Paul Brederick had Tamair, based in Tamworth, which was a flying school and charter show up to Metro RPT. Was a big outfit but went broke in about 1996-1997 IIRC.
It'd be interesting to plot the failure of hitherto successful GA businesses against economic cycles and see if there is a pattern.
Advance Airlines
Cirrus Airlines, anyone?
Country Connection ex Cootamundra
Yanda (ex Singleton Air Services) - not broke but quit rather than go broke fighting the regulator
Airtex
Whyalla
Tamair had that major fatality in a Metro at TMW at night
Advance had the KingAir at SYD
Airtex had the Mojave
Whyalla had the MKK incident
Yanda & Country Connection got squeezed out by SYD pressures and Airlink only survived because the owner was such a hard smart bastard and went to B1900 at the right time.
Who was it at Lockhart River again?
....then there's the demise of all the AN affilliates, beyond their direct control somewhat.