MMAG Hosted the Russian Beriev Design Bureau 2007 Miami Visit In Support of Miami Be-103, N13KL

Miami Dec 2007: Mr. Robbie Peres of Sea Planes of Key West and Founder of Sea Planes of Miami along with Mr. Benny Benitez of the MMAG / 94th AeroClaims-Aviation Consulting Group, hosted a technical delegation visit from the Russian Beriev Design Bureau, a world leader in Hydro-Aviation design and manufacturing to Miami.

The seven day visit by Beriev was primarily focused to establish technical and personal ties between the Design Bureau and the above organizations and individuals, so as to support the operation and proper upkeep of the sole Beriev Be-103 operating within Miami and establish the ground work for future joint projects into the region.

With only three Be-103 operating within the United States (N13KL, N30KL, & N29KL) both Robbie, Benny as well as Mr. Richard Osborne (Be-103 Pilot) liaised and established excellent communication and relationship with the Beriev personnel, thus beneficial to the technical care of the three U.S. / Beriev airframes.

The visit also laid the preliminary ground work for both Benny and Richard to visit the Beriev facility in Russia during the early part of 2008, so as to ascertain factory certification in the Be-103, as well to get initial technical and operation exposure to Beriev bigger project, the Be-200, the world only jet power amphibian aircraft in operation.