Bill Yon | Source | Director of Aviation at Marvin
Bill Yon
Bill Yon is the Director of Aviation at Marvin, a premium window and door manufacturer headquartered in Warroad, Minnesota. Bill works with a team of more than a dozen pilots, mechanics and a scheduler, and a fleet of planes which travel several times per day between Minneapolis and the Warroad airport, as well as to and from Marvin satellite operations in North Dakota, Tennessee, Oregon and beyond.
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Marvin
Director of Aviation
started Jan 2019
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Spurred by challenging mornings at the rink, former Gopher Bill Yon finds his joy in the clouds
Renowned for his skating as a Minnesota Gopher, Roseau native Bill Yon is back in his hometown, loving life as a pilot and helping preserve the history in one of the state's great hockey communities.
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“I was run over by an airplane. Big one — a 757, and the result was I lost my right leg above the knee,” he said, reflexively patting the leg of his work uniform. “At 26 years old, that’s a life-changing event, obviously. I had all these aspirations to be flying and that just turned my world upside down. I knew I was lucky to live through it, and I had a lot of support from my family and friends to keep me going. It took a while. I had to learn to walk again. I got back in an airplane about two weeks after the accident, illegally, and as soon as I was back I thought, ‘I’m staying with this.’ And I did.”