Our long time insurance partner, Aviation Insurance Resources (AIR), became a partner of Acrisure Aerospace in July 2020 but continued operations under their original name. As of 2025, Acrisure has consolidated all aviation insurance activities under the rebranded division name Acrisure Aerospace.

Acrisure Aerospace is licensed to operate in all 50 states and can handle the needs of all types of Cardinal Flyers, from student pilots in stock '68's to the high-flying turbo group.

This relationship brings many benefits to the CFO membership. Primary among them is the active involvement of Joe Ruck an insurance professional with many years of experience, along with the experienced Acrisure team.

Joe is a CFI and commercial pilot. He is a former aircraft accident investigator and is also an expert on group programs such as ours. As you may notice from his picture, he also pilots a Harley.

To contact Joe dial Phone: 301-635-1054 or Click here to send him an email.

Also working to our benefit is Jon Harden, an active CFII and pilot who founded AIR. Jon Harden has a long history of serving pilots in a senior role at a major national agency. He is an active Commercial pilot and aircraft owner, previously owned a 1973 Cardinal RG and has been flying for more than 28 years.

Acrisure Aerospace specializes in aviation insurance and is licensed in all 50 states and work with all the aviation markets in the US. Not all brokers have access to all the companies like Acrisure Aerospace.

Joe and Jon, along with the Acrisure Aerospace team, bring together the knowledge required to find the best value for all of us, and they do it well.

For instance, some members have had difficulty having specific needs met, such as smooth coverage, appropriate hull values for high-value aircraft, coverage for stock '68 models and coverage of special instructional flights.

The CFO program has been able to obtain all of these 'extras' for CFO members. This brings extra leverage when negotiating for other Cardinal owners, and means you won't have to explain to or convince your agent of the need for such coverages or services.

We expect to hear from Joe and Jon from time to time with information and perspective to help us all navigate the travails of our insurance needs. I suspect most of us desire to learn as little as possible while still meeting our obligations. Joe can help us do this with minimum effort.

Keith, Debbie and Paul have placed our insurance with Acrisure Aerospace. We have found the service to be excellent, the prices as good as possible and the support, both before and after the policy, to be outstanding. We have been walking this talk, and it has worked well for us.

Joe may not get you a lower rate than you currently have, he will get you the lowest rate available. And he won't shrink from your 150 horse '68, low Cardinal time, training rider or smooth coverage request.

Quotations can be requested from the CFO site, just click here and fill out the form. Please keep in mind that most underwriters will only quote through one agent, so ask here first, and ask early enough to get things properly set up.

When the time comes to renew your insurance, we invite you to take a test flight with Acrisure Aerospace, as well as Joe, Jon and CFO. We think you will be glad you did.

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