After graduating in 1948 from Saint Francis De Sales High School, Utica, NY, Joe began his avionics career by joining the Navy and completing the Class A Aircraft Electronics School at Memphis, Tennessee.
While on active duty during the Korean War (1948-1952), Joe served as an Aviation Electronics Technician while based at London, England; French Morocco; Key West, Florida and NAS Oceana, Virginia. During that time, he flew as aircrew, installed and maintained navigation and communications equipment on various Navy aircraft, which included the F4U Corsair.
Following his Navy tour, Joe ventured to California to attend college and continue his career in electronics working at Long Beach Naval Shipyard. He later worked for Air Oasis in Long Beach where he set up and managed their avionics shop.
In 1957 Joe Accepted an offer from Cincinnati Aircraft to set up and manage an avionics shop at Lunken Airport in Cincinnati, Ohio. Five years later, in 1962, he established his own business, Avionics, Inc.
In July of 2007 Joe finally sold the business to a Pilot / Businessman who intends to maintain the same values, and constantly improve the quality of the various levels of customer service.
