John T. Hill: Undergraduate Fuels Passion with Aviation Invention

John T. Hill 

While in high school, aviation enthusiast John T. Hill decided he would do anything he could to get his career off the ground― including sweep it. 

 Hired by ProJet Aviation at Leesburg Executive Airport, Hill first worked as a custodian, then line service technician, then front desk representative. He also earned his private pilot’s license.

With knowledge gleaned from those experiences, and with a major boost from various George Mason University entrepreneurial resources, the junior economics major is developing an app, EasyFBO, that would make the fueling and servicing of planes at hundreds of the country’s general aviation airports much more efficient and less costly.

“Aviation is my thing,” says Hill, who got his start in the industry changing light bulbs in hangars. “And I’ve been on both sides of the desk.”

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