John was born in Denver, Colorado on September 4, 1945. As an infant, he moved to the Northern Texas Panhandle where he lived across the road from Texhoma, Texas airport, a former CPT Base during WWII. It was there he decided on an aviation career. At the age of 12, he moved with his family down to Amarillo, where his father had a job building the new runway for B-52s at Amarillo Air Force Base.

He began his aviation career by taking flying lessons at Tradewinds Airport when he was 15. He funded his flying and eating habits with 3 paper routes and various retail jobs during high school. After graduation, he took a job at the local power company. Two years later after a Christmas Holiday in Emporia, Kansas, he was stranded in Wichita, Kansas with One Dollar & Eleven Cents ($1.11) to his name. As a result, he landed a job with Beech Aircraft working in the factory. He thought he had died and gone to Heaven. When he left, five years later, he was a Pilot/Mechanic in the Flight Department.

He left Wichita for his first tour to Vietnam working for an unknown organization called NHA. He did two contracts in-country with this organization. He then settled back in his hometown of Amarillo, where he was the Assistant Manager of the Civil Air Patrol, a civilian search & rescue branch of the US Air Force.

He finally earned his degree from Amarillo College, where he was an Adjunct Professor in the Aviation Management Department. From there he became the Program Chairman of the Aviation Maintenance Program at Texas State Technical College. Also during this period, he was appointed as a Regional Resource Person to the National Air & Space Museum at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC and
 

He left Austin for AMR Services, a subsidiary of American Airlines in Ft. Worth, where he was a Senior Analyst for Aircraft Maintenance. After one year, he was invited to become the Manager of Technical Training for Aviall at Love Field in Dallas. While there he landed a training contract with Pratt & Whitney Aircraft of Hartford, Connecticut for Aviall.

After six years he left Aviall with the Pratt & Whitney Contract and started his own company called “Advanced Borescoping International”. A year later, with two of his former colleagues from Aviall, they founded AVTEAM Aviation Field Services, a subsidiary of AVTEAM Inc., based in Miramar, Florida.

With his contract completed with AVTEAM, it was time to exercise entrepreneurial muscles again and he started another company called “Rockin’ E Enterprises” and he still has the Pratt & Whitney Training Contract.

John also has joined several of his acting colleagues and they have started a movie production company called “Circle 7 Entertainment, LLC”. They have just completed their first movie short. See the link.

John is married to Dr. Suzanne Moore
(www.suzanne-moore.com)  and is the father of three daughters and grand father to Macey and Avery. John has many interest including acting, flying, skydiving and he plays the drums in an R & B Band.