LEADERSHIP TEAM

A Blackhawk Aerospace founding partner, Jim Allmon created the Blackhawk Aerospace brand and concept of upgrading turboprop aircraft with new, higher horsepower Pratt & Whitney engines. Prior to founding Blackhawk Aerospace in 1999, he served as the president and CEO of Aurora Aviation in Waco, Texas, an FBO offering aircraft sales, avionics, MRO and flight training. He has also served as president and CEO of Allmon Aviation and TulsaJet, Inc. in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

A pilot himself, Allmon follows the mantra of “quality and safety above profits, always.” Allmon’s favorite part of the job is solving customer issues and flying with them in their planes to witness their excitement first hand as they experience the power of a Blackhawk. He enjoys keeping an open door to any employee or customer, willing to roll up his sleeves and find solutions as quickly as possible.

Outside of Blackhawk Aerospace, together with his wife, Blackhawk EVP Lynnette Allmon, Allmon founded the Freedom Ball, an annual fundraising event for aviation scholarships that honors our veterans and active duty soldiers.

Edwin Black joined Blackhawk in 2007, coming to the company after 9 years at Raisbeck Engineering where he’d most recently served as director of marketing and sales. A private pilot, Black’s passion for aviation product improvement is personal. After helping Raisbeck build a 50% King Air penetration with their upgrade kits, he joined Blackhawk out of interest in seeing further speed, safety, and value for the King Air. He enjoys the thrill of seeing customers experience the best performance possible from their aircraft and makes it a point to stay in touch with all his customers.

Black received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah and is a licensed sky diver.

Micky Bitcon’s experience in aerospace finance and accounting spans more than two decades and includes strategic planning, financial planning and analysis, financial reporting, capital budgeting, management reporting policies, and procedures and process improvements. She joined Blackhawk in 2010 to develop internal and external financial reporting packages as well as strategic planning modeling tools. Bitcon was promoted to CFO in 2011, where she oversees all financial aspects of the company and ensures the internal team has accurate and timely financial data to make well-informed decisions.

Prior to Blackhawk, Bitcon served 13 years at Hawker Beechcraft Corporation, most recently as director of finance. She is a CPA and holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and an executive master’s degree from Wichita State University.

Donnie Holder has been with Blackhawk since its inception and has held several positions in various departments and performed duties ranging from marketing strategy and graphic design to IT administration and programming. Having a foot in both marketing and IT departments was beneficial for Donnie because so much of marketing relies on technology.

Prior to working at Blackhawk, Donnie was a network consultant for many diverse enterprises in the Central Texas area from construction to universities to corporate offices. Blackhawk was one of Donnie’s clients and he was drawn to the wide range of activities Blackhawk offers and the opportunity to for diverse day-to-day operations. Holder has implemented and maintains the integration of the Blackhawk companies for seamless interaction across all platforms. He sees every interaction as an opportunity to show the best of Blackhawk and never misses an opportunity to do that.