Based in Leeds, UK and Verona, Italy, Ravenheat Manufacturing has UK-registered a Citation II. The aircraft serves as a corporate shuttle between the company's two bases, and Ravenheat reports complete satisfaction with its first business jet. \rLouis Pickersgill, managing director of Ravenheat, told EBAN about the benefits the Citation had brought to his company: "It's a two hour flight down to Vicensa, or Verona in the winter, and from there it takes ten minutes in the car to get to our manufacturing facilities. We have done nearly two hundred hours since we've had it - quite honestly, the aircraft must know its way backwards and forwards by now.\r"Ravenheat runs like clockwork. We have never had to travel in a hurry, but it's nice to be able to leave at six, be there at nine and be home by seven o'clock that night. It used to take three days to do one day's work," he added.\rThe Citation was purchased from a Swiss company in 1998 with the help of Tim Leacock Aircraft Sales Limited. It was then transferred to the US for painting and refitting, and was unable to obtain a UK registration until just prior to the millennium. "Tim arranged all that within the price- he's done me a super job," Pickersgill enthused. "The Citation has not given us a moment's trouble. I couldn't have asked for a better aircraft - touch wood!"\rRavenheat manufactures gas boilers, and has recently invested £1.2 million for expansion. Pickersgill is also keen to develop his aviation interests; a former amateur helicopter pilot, he acknowledged that flying in a business jet had revived his airborne aspirations, but was quick to emphasise that the Citation II is used entirely as a work tool.