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  • Chapman Freeborn is the largest air charter broker in the world with 36 offices in 20 countries
  • In June 2007, we were voted"Air Cargo Charter Broker of The Year" at the ACW World Air Cargo Awards in Munich
  • Chapman Freeborn was established in 1973
  • Annual group turnover is over $450m
  • The Chapman Freeborn group employs nearly 300 personnel
  • We specialise in moving urgent cargo, heavy and outsize pieces, high value commodities, dangerous goods and AOG parts
  • Many of the world’s major relief organisations, governments, NGOs and other aid providers use our expertise in transporting relief goods and organising personnel evacuations
  • We provide ACMI, wet, damp and dry leasing solutions for many of the world’s largest airlines
  • We also provide General Sales Agency (GSA), Station Management and Ground Handling Services
  • Our operations division, Paragon Global Flight Support provides 24 hour outsourced flight support
  • Chapman Freeborn is listed in the Sunday Times’ Top Track 250 of the biggest mid-market private companies in the UK

For further information on this story, or about the Chapman Freeborn Group, please contact Julie Black or Andy James on +44 (0)1293 572832

Chapman Freeborn AirChartering Consolidates Chartering Strength & Appoints
Shahe Ouzounian As Managing Director Designate for UK

6th June 2006

Chapman Freeborn Airchartering is pleased to announce the appointment of Shahe Ouzounian as Managing Director Designate of our two UK companies – Chapman Freeborn Airchartering Ltd and Paragon Global Flight Support Ltd – our in house flight operations department.

Shahe, 35, joined Chapman Freeborn in 2000 and rapidly proved himself able to take on the role of Director of Cargo for the UK company, in January 2002. He has been responsible for the establishment of our company as a major supplier to numerous government and non-governmental organisations, as well as the United Nations and a wide variety of other clients.

In addition he has been heavily involved in our airline management activity and has concluded several significant cargo and passenger aircraft leases.

Shahe has a long history of working in aviation, having commenced his career in 1992 working for Southern Air Transport, a US supplemental carrier specialising in the operation of Hercules, DC8 and B747 cargo aircraft. Between 1996 and 1998 Shahe joined British Airways in the capacity of strategic management consultant for BA World Cargo and later in conjunction with Air Cargo News launched"Freighters", the annual reference publication to all cargo aircraft and freighter operating airlines.

Group MD, Carol Norman comments:"Shahe is a well known and respected figure in the aviation, air cargo and relief communities as well as being popular within the Chapman Freeborn Group. I am sure that colleagues, clients and suppliers alike will all join me in supporting Shahe in his new position."

Shahe himself comments:"CF has always been a pretty informal organisation and I am really proud to take on this most formal of roles as figurehead for our UK companies. My aspirations are the same as those for the group as a whole: quite simply to concentrate on what we do best – aircraft chartering and the support of our charter flights."

Shahe took up his new post with effect from May 2006.

Former UK Managing Director Carol Norman will of course be continuing as Group Managing Director and as a shareholder and Director of the Holding company will now be able to spend more time focusing on the development of the Group in France and in new locations worldwide.

The group’s chartering turnover growth has been quite remarkable with turnover increasing from approx $120m in 2000 to $225m in 2004 and anticipate that 2005’s finalised accounts will show a chartering turnover of $300m. The Chapman Freeborn Group has always responded to potential new market opportunities in order to maintain this growth momentum and historically has opened offices in strategic new locations which present not only the opportunity to establish operational bases but also to expand new and emerging markets.

2006 will be no different with new offices just opened at the beginning of June in Istanbul, Turkey and Hong Kong. Both of these locations will seek to develop further chartering activity in the region in all market sectors and will also serve as a local operational base – Istanbul in particular is a strategic cargo hub for example in it’s location as a bridge between Europe and Asia.

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