AeroVanti founder resigns CEO, chairman positions

After months of escalating turbulence, the founder and CEO of AeroVanti, a private air service company with a partial headquarters in Sarasota, is out. 

Patrick Britton-Harr has resigned as CEO and as chairman of the company’s board, a company official confirmed Tuesday. Britton-Harr remains on the board of directors, for now, but it is unclear if he is still being paid.

The company, with a membership model that costs up to $150,000 a year, has been inundated with reports that members are out hundreds of thousands of dollars and its fleet has been grounded and its planes repossessed. A handful of lawsuits have been filed against the company, and the Federal Aviation Administration has been looking into the company.