Beyond limits, above all

Portal Aircraft Company

Portal Aircraft Company produces the Safest, Lowest Maintenance, Longest Range & Endurance Vertical Take Off and Land Aircraft (VTOL) Aircraft available. Additionally, Portal Aircraft are inherently impervious to Directed Energy Attacks.

Contact us

  • Name: James Thurman

  • Phone: 667-380-0203

  • Email: [email protected]

  • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-t-thurman/

About the Founder

  • Education

  • BS Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington

  • MS Aeronautical Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology

  • MS Space Systems, Air Force Institute of Technology

  • US Navy Flight School/Naval Aviator

  • Defense Acquisition University: Program Management Level II certified

  • Experience:

  • Aerospace engineering professor at the US Naval Academy

  • Aerospace engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington

  • FAA Certified Commercial airplane & helicopter pilot

  • 1500+ total flight hours/105 Combat hours, 200+ TLAM Strikes

  • FAA Certified Light Sport Repairman

  • Owned and maintained two airplanes for over a decade

  • Managed several intelligence satellite programs from start to finish at National Reconnaissance Office

  • Lockheed Martin Systems Engineer and Systems Architect (Patriot Missile System)

  • Managed Patriot Missile programs including cost, technical and schedule

  • Successful Business owner and investor