See Our Projects. Access Gates. You decide who comes in and out from simple to advanced access gates for your home or business. Keep your family safe with quality fences for homes big and small in the Indianapolis area. Established About Us. In October , following the untimely death of G. It had the old Air Force engines on it. We had about employees and half-built bodies of airplanes laying around. There were no sales.
I was told it was because the market was bad. The first day, he approached a pilot and told him he would need him to demonstrate the plane in Columbia that Friday and would need him to fly out on Wednesday.
But he would go—after the golf game. Combs agreed that he could make the trip on Thursday. Combs, used to selling aircraft, gave the pilot, who had no selling experience, a short lesson.
Find out what kind of whiskey he likes and put it in the bar. I knew something about it. Fix it up. Make it look pretty! Scatter some pictures here and there! The Lear took off at noon; three hours and ten minutes later it was in Belize, British Honduras. And that was just in the first few days! Combs realized quickly that they were using the wrong system.
Protected territories had a lot of criminal opportunities; it was a bad dream. If you had a protected territory, you had constant quarreling over it. It was always a border fight. It took all day or two days to get to some parts of the states in a Bonanza. You could get anywhere in the states from Wichita in a Lear in two hours. All we needed were good sales reps. Then I took a beautiful white Lear and stuck it on the circle. We put seats around for 30 or 40 salesmen.
Just look at this airplane! Get out there and get some leads! We can put them together in a hurry. You guys get the sales. It rolled in easy. The girl, well, you have to make your own arrangement.
Combs decided that the company needed offices with good management and salesmen in several areas of the country — so he set about hiring staff.
Plus, we had back orders — we were going like hell! In , Combs was acknowledged as the first industry president to be rated in a jet aircraft manufactured by his company.
That same year he was nominated into the Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame. Gates Learjet was now a leader in general aviation. An independent survey of over 30, professional pilots recognized Combs Gates as the number one FBO in the nation in , an honor they would be given for the next 14 consecutive years. In , Combs Gates Inc. This was renamed Combs Gates Arapahoe. In , Combs Gates Arapahoe underwent a renovation. The FBO was enlarged through the building of two new hangars, Hangars 9 and The following year, a team of Chinese engineers and aids visited the Learjet plant in Tucson, Ariz.
After the tour, Combs was invited to visit China. Combs flew a Lear over the Elysians to Guam, and then on into Shanghai. On the contrary, they were addressed in a precise, personalized manner to such individuals as "Mr. Frank R. Lawson" an official at Algernon Blair, Inc. Several of the magazines carrying such ads were distributed in Alabama. Finally, Combs-Gates operates an aircraft parts sales division which does business in Alabama.
In fact, Combs-Gates employs a sales representative in the southeastern United States whose sales territory includes the state of Alabama.
The defendant stresses the limited nature of this sales representative's activity as it relates to Combs-Gates' overall sales. The fact nevertheless remains that some parts sales to Alabama result from regular, personal calls made on customers in Alabama by this sales representative.
In June , plaintiffs became interested in trading a B Turbo Commander airplane for a newer version of that same model. Plaintiffs contacted the defendant's Colorado office regarding a possible trade of aircraft. Defendant's Colorado office informed plaintiff that all aircraft of the type sought by plaintiffs were handled by defendant's Indiana office.
Defendant's Indiana office promptly followed up on plaintiffs' inquiry. At this point, there began a negotiation process between plaintiffs and Combs-Gates which stretched over the next month. Affidavits of several employees of Algernon Blair, Inc. About two-thirds of this number were initiated by plaintiffs via defendant's toll free Wats line.
The remainder were initiated by the defendant and made to the plaintiffs in Alabama. Written correspondence also followed between the parties regarding the transaction upon which they were about to enter.
This correspondence came in the form of a letter, telegrams and telexes. Defendant sent four such pieces of written communications to plaintiffs in Alabama. Plaintiffs allege that an agreement between the parties was eventually reached, the terms of which required delivery of the old aircraft plus a cash sum by plaintiffs in return for which plaintiffs would receive from defendant a newer model of the same aircraft.
Plaintiffs further allege that defendant failed to comply with the terms of this agreement. Plaintiffs have now sued defendant for damages resulting from the breach of this agreement.
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