Ocean Sky's Prestwick-based aircraft handling company has moved into spacious new premises which quadruple the size of its facilities. "We achieved #1m turnover in the first year of trading. The sky really is the limit for us," says director of operations Eddie Allison who started the Scottish facility with three staff last April but now has a team of 11.

Allison, who for nine years was a senior manager with Prestwick airport and led the planning for Prestwick's handling of aircraft flying in for the G8 summit in 2005, was headhunted by Ocean Sky's ceo Kurosh Tehranchian.

"We've welcomed celebrities and vips including Hugh Grant, Ian Botham and the Canadian prime minister but our established air traffic is extremely varied. We might handle medical emergency flights taking heart and lung transplants down to Papworth Hospital in Cambridge or we might look after a 747," Allison adds. "We have everything here from P180 Avanti and Super King Airs to Gulfstreams, and from Falcons to the Airbus A319 and Boeing Business Jet. Businessmen are using them to fly from here to destinations including France, Rome, Sardinia, Moscow and major destinations in the U.S."