Mick Adams

45 Years Commercial, Military, Business Aviation & 25 Years Executive Leadership. Group Board & Strategic.

Mick Adams, Group Board Advisor, and formerly the CEO for STS Aviation Services, has been instrumental in aviation for more than four decades and over the last 4 years has grown STS from a single narrow body aircraft facility in Newquay, to introducing two MRO start-ups in Birmingham and Manchester with capacity for multiple lines of narrow and wide body aircraft.

Mick has delivered two firsts for UK aviation in the Boeing Wedgetail programme in Birmingham and the Boeing 777 Passenger to Freighter conversion programme in Manchester, creating hundreds of jobs and building STS to be the UK's largest independent MRO with Civil and Military accreditations.

Mick is a Fellow of The Royal Aeronautical Society and Executive Board Member of the International Federation of Airworthiness. He has received several industry awards to include:

Number One FBO in Europe
Number One MRO in Europe
Number One MRO in Middle East
Aviation Top 100 Leaders
International Federation of Airworthiness Turnbuckle Award
Royal Aeronautical Contribution to Aviation award.

In 2023 Mick's contribution to aviation was marked by way of being awarded Aviation Weeks Lifetime Achievement Award.