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• Birth	Austria
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I823	Rozhon's from Chicago and Elsewhere
  Last Modified	22 Aug 2004 17:29:34
  Family	Elizabeth Anne BROWN
  Married	,, Florida
  Divorced	Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F789	Group Sheet

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  The Sebastian Sun July 6, 1983 New flight school to open here By Shirley Tyler The Sebastian Airport Board of Directors met Tuesday and approved a plan to stripe the airport runways and to allow a new flight school at the Fly Florida Hangar on the west side of the airport. The new flight school, "Florida Skyways," will have eight planes for training in all phases of private pilot licensing, as well as commercial to airline pilot status according to the Austrian owner, Manfred Rozhon. He said many of his students would be from Europe. Jack Drew of Fly Florida said the entire fixed base station and existing hangar he currently uses will be sub-let to Florida Skyways, inc. He will build another building for his airplane sales.and service and also operate another subsidiary busiiiess from the new building until plane sales pick up, exporting. The airport board also got into a lengthy discussion about the $10,000 rent owed by the Sebastian Municipal Golf Course. After remarks by each member of the board said Airport Director John Van Antwerp, it was decided that the golf course needed to be allowed some latitude until it had a chance to increase its revenues and that the airport didn't really need the money right away anyway. Some board members felt that a contract needed to be written and signed by all parties, but the airport director and board chair- man, Ed Paluch, said the agreement was in the minutes that the golf course would pay $10,000 per year rent plus 50 percent of the net profit and that was sufficient to make it a legal agreement. Van Antwerp said, "If we see the golf course is overspending then we can come down on them and cry foul, but right now, they need a break. We don't want to put an undue burden on one of our tenants. He said the matter had been turned over to the city attorney a long time ago; he would see where that stands. Pending approval from the city council, the board will ask DOT to stripe the runways, as they could do it cheap, efficient and fast. "I don't want to live with painters on my runways for months," Van Antwerp said, while recommending that DOT do the job. "They probably have more experience in this sort of thing than anyone else and would already have the lowest bid on the paint." He said it usually takes about 250 gallons of paint to do the striping properly. "That's a lot of paint, and a lot of labor. We don't want to have to go back and do the job again too soon if sub-grade paint is used. We would still be facing those labor costs again."