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Fred Mohr
Vice President of Maintenance and Engineering
Fred Mohr leads more than 1,100 Alaska Airlines maintenance and engineering employees, who are responsible for the carrier’s fleet of 114 aircraft. Since joining the company in 2003, Mohr has been intensely involved in bringing onboard Alaska’s Next Generation, fuel-efficient 737-800s and implementing a standardized fleet plan.
Snapshot
Hometown: Staten Island, N.Y. First job as a kid: Paperboy Favorite film: “What Price Glory?” starring James Cagney Favorite vacation spot: Sailing in the Caribbean Favorite food: Ahi tuna Favorite line from a movie or book: “Going into hyperspace ain’t like dustin’ crops, kid!” Hans Solo to Luke Skywalker — from “Star Wars” Least favorite household chore: Toilet management Hobbies: Sailing; skiing; running; golf (not necessarily in that order) Favorite book: “Illusions” by Richard Bach Music preference: Doo Wop Pet: Kiki the cat
Mohr’s aviation career spans 43 years. He started with United Airlines in 1966 as an avionics mechanic. During the next three and a half decades at United, he served as lead avionics engineer, manager of component engineering, director of aircraft engineering, general manager of engine maintenance and general manager of the carrier’s maintenance facilities in San Francisco and Indianapolis.
Immediately before he joined Alaska, Mohr served as United’s managing director of heavy maintenance. In this role, he supervised major overhauls of the airline’s fleet of nearly 500 aircraft, and managed more than 5,000 employees at the carrier’s narrow-body aircraft operations center in Indianapolis and its wide-body aircraft operations center in Oakland, Calif.
Mohr earned a bachelor’s degree and pursued studies toward an MBA at San Francisco State University. He holds a certified airframe and powerplant (A&P) license from the Federal Aviation Administration and has been a guest lecturer at Purdue University.
