Leandro “Nando” Mendoza
Owner/ I.A / A&P / Private Pilot
What fuels your passion for aviation?
Restoring airplanes back to Original configuration, flying vintage aircraft and maintaining our own vintage restorations. The journey of completing a flying vintage aircraft is a hobby to me more than a job. Aviation changed my life!
What is the best part about being a part of the West Coast Air Creations Team?
The team that we have formed in the past seven years is really one of the best parts about working for this company. Thanks to Mark Lightsey at Areocraftsman for taking a huge part in the mentoring and building our West Coast Air Creations. Also, the fact that we specialize on vintage aircraft.
What makes West Coast Air Creations different?
We take pride in every project no matter how small or how big the job is. All art work is done to high standards, and we will always meet our clients’ workmanship demands.
Hauldo “Wally’ Mendoza
A&P / Private & Commercial Pilot/ Consolidated Aircraft Coating Certified Instructor
What fuels your passion for aviation?
In this career, we as a team are constantly growing in our knowledge, to better ourselves for our future. In my eyes, this future consists of keeping history in the air for the generations to come.
What is the best part about being a part of the West Coast Air Creations Team?
Working with a variety of personalities and having to put our skills together to accomplish the job.
What makes West Coast Air Creations different?
We go above and beyond to make the aircraft beautiful and safe.
eric RODRIGUEZ
A&P/Student Pilot
What fuels your passion for aviation?
The final result of the restoration of an aircraft, when it flies for the first time in years.
What is the best part about being a part of the West Coast Air Creations Team?
The friendship that is built within the work and the ability to learn from one another’s unique qualities that we each bring to the team.
What makes West Coast Air Creations different?
We are more than willing to not just satisfy you, but go out of our way to restore your aircraft as if it were our own, to our highest standards.
Doug Turner
I.A / A&P/ Private Pilot
What fuels your passion for aviation?
I find aircraft beautiful machines that offer a great deal of adventure.
What is the best part about being a part of the West Coast Air Creations Team?
I greatly enjoy working with a team who takes great pride and joy in not only doing the job right, but seeks to do their best.
What makes West Coast Air Creations different?
A job can be done with a combination of two of the following, but never with all three. It can be done well, fast, or cheap. See our shop chooses to do all jobs well, the client chooses fast or cheap.
CRAIG CAMERON
A&P/Pilot
What fuels your passion for aviation?
The art of building, the ability to be creative and the physics behind every detail.
What is the best part about being a part of the West Coast Air Creations Team?
The high expectations all around the shop, learning off each other’s strengths in skills and producing quality work.
What makes West Coast Air Creations different?
Our shop isn’t just a day job, we have built a family based team, where we hold each other accountable to quality work and integrity.
CAMERON EVANS
A&P Internship Program/Private& Commercial Pilot-GLIDER
What fuels your passion for aviation?
The complexity of the aircraft, yet the beauty of the simplicity of the components.
What is the best part about being a part of the West Coast Air Creations Team?
I love being a part of a team that specializes in vintage aircrafts, a dying art that we strive to learn and keep alive.
What makes West Coast Air Creations different?
West Coast Air Creations team is a very unique and humble, a team who strive to better one another and grow together.