Flying Into The Family Business. His way.

Suresh Narayanan didn’t grow up dreaming about running a company.
He grew up at an airport repair station, watching his dad fix planes.

• His dad had been a Concorde mechanic. Later, he started his own aircraft repair shop in Miami—fixing aircraft parts by hand, fighting for every job.

“My dad had his own business,” Suresh says. “Most summers or whenever I wasn't in school, he'd bring me to work. I'd work to earn my lunch money.”

He didn’t realize it at the time, but those long hours at the hangar shaped everything that came next. Today, Suresh runs Jets MRO—a business jet heavy maintenance company with locations in Dallas and Miami, built around a simple idea: treat mechanics better.

Entrepreneurship wasn’t just something Suresh learned from his dad.
It ran deeper.

After graduating from Florida State, Suresh moved to Dallas to work with his older brother, who had launched an aerospace engineering firm.

They grew it together for more than a decade.

“My brother was the technical visionary. I loved the marketing, operations, people side,” Suresh says. “We were complementary. We divided and conquered.”

It wasn’t glamorous. They traveled constantly. They shared hotel rooms to save money. They argued like brothers do. But they built something real—turning a small firm into a respected name in aviation engineering.

Looking back, Suresh knows how rare that experience was.

“It was basically like going to school with my brother,” he says. “I learned more working with him than I could've learned anywhere else.”

But after ten years, ambition started to pull him forward.

“I always had this feeling I could do something bigger,” Suresh says. “I love change. I love challenge.”

He moved on. Worked for JSX. Dabbled in aviation M&A. But the itch to build something new—to create something from scratch—never went away.

And when he looked around at the aviation industry he loved, he saw a glaring problem no one else seemed willing to fix.

There’s a massive mechanic shortage in aviation.

Planes are flying longer. Maintenance demands are growing. But good mechanics keep leaving—burned out, disrespected, treated like replaceable parts.

Turnover for mechanics in some companies was reaching 40%.

“One out of every two mechanics would leave within a year,” Suresh says.

It didn’t make sense.

If you lose your best people, you lose everything—quality, safety, delivery times, customer trust.

Suresh realized the problem wasn’t just money. It was how mechanics were treated.

So he built Jets MRO around four core promises:

• Engaged leadership: Real feedback loops, not lip service.

• Better culture: Mechanics treated like partners, not replaceable labor.

• Predictable schedules: No forced overtime. No on-call chaos.

• Family-first benefits: Free family healthcare.

“It wasn’t about reinventing maintenance,” he says. “It was about putting mechanics first—and trusting that the business results would follow.”

It wasn't just talk. Every month, Suresh gets in front of his whole team and answers their questions—about the business, the numbers, the future. No hiding. No spin.

“I treat them like shareholders,” he says. “They deserve to know what’s going on.”

In just 16 months, Jetamaro has already touched over 100 aircraft, opened a 40,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility, and secured full FAA certification—including engine maintenance approval.

And they’re just getting started.

“We’re hiring every week. We’re building the team. We’re thinking about future acquisitions and facility growth,” Suresh says. “But right now, the number one goal is making sure we get the right people in the right seats.”

It’s not about growing at all costs.

It’s about building something that doesn’t already exist in aviation:
A company that fixes planes—and fixes how mechanics are treated in the process.

Suresh knows it’s not easy.
And he’s brutally honest about what it takes.

“As owners, leaders—we are 100% in control of the outcome,” he says. “If something’s not right, it’s on us. Stop complaining. Fix it. Do the work.”

That mindset—straightforward, accountable, relentless—is what built Jetamaro from a sketch on paper into a business that’s already punching above its weight.

Not because Suresh had it all figured out.

But because he kept showing up.
Kept listening.
Kept building the business he wished had existed when he was starting out.

One plane.
One mechanic.
One promise at a time.

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