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Resume of Ed Hanley
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Ed, and his wife,
Adrienne, began visiting Sedona, Arizona, for more than three years
before deciding to stop...and make it home. In 1991 they
bought a beautiful
property on Oak Creek and in 1994 demolished the old home and replaced
it with a unique home which has been featured in books, a TV spot on the
Discovery Channel's "Great Vacation Homes", and newspaper
articles in the local area. To read the Arizona Republic article, scroll
down on this page to “Newspaper Story”. Adrienne has a
very active law practice in Sedona where she was voted the number one,
of the "Best of the Best" lawyers, in Sedona for 2005 and 2006.
Ed began working with real estate about forty-five years ago
when bought his first house, a partially finished shell in Rye Beach,
New Hampshire -- he was twenty-four years old. Since that time
he has bought, 'fixed-up' and sold approximately 28 houses in four
states in the U.S. and several countries (including the United States
Virgin Islands). He delights in buying vacant land, waiting for the
right time to put it back on the market and selling...for a profit, of
course. And he will be happy to tell you that he has never lost money in
real estate. Ed has helped build and consulted on many homes in the
Sedona area and will put his extensive experience and knowledge to work
for his clients.
Present:
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Realtor with Coldwell Banker First Affiliate in Sedona, Arizona
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Owner/manager of Sedona Reclaimed Lumber Company, a dealer in recycled construction materials
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Director
and President Cup of Gold Water Company, Sedona, Arizona
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Director
Emeritus –
Marilyn Sunderman Foundation – provides scholarship funds to teachers.
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Director –
Cross Creek Ranch Homeowner's Association.
Experience and
Background:
2003 - Present - Realtor with Coldwell Banker First Affiliate,
Sedona, AZ, member of President's Circle
1984 – 2001-
Co-founder and President of First Guardian Trust Company,
Ltd., a
corporate management firm, managing foreign sales corporations
incorporated in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Barbados, West Indies.
1981 -1984 -
Account
executive/financial advisor
with the brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch in St. Croix, United States
Virgin Islands.
1980 - 1981
- Captain of the sixty five foot power yacht "Ali Kai", for the
owner, Mrs. Alice Kaiser, the widow of Henry J. Kaiser (Kaiser
Industries, Kaiser Steel) in St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands.
1983
– Purchased Farchette Real Estate business in St. Croix,
United States Virgin Islands, and formed the Farchette & Hanley Real
Estate
(http://www.chrishanley.com/index.htm)
firm, which is today, the première real estate firm on St. Croix.
Released interest during divorce settlement in 1984. His son,
Christopher, is the highly successful owner/operator today.
1978 -1980 –
Airline Captain
with the seaplane airline, Antilles Airboats, Inc., (owned by Maureen
O'Hara and Charles Blair) St. Croix, USVI. Flew the Grumman Goose &
Mallard airboats. Has over 10,000 water landings.
1953 -1978 -
United States Air
Force,
Command pilot in B-47, B-52, FB-111 aircraft. Flew 564 combat hours in
Viet Nam. Retired as a Lieutenant Colonel.
Education and Qualifications:
1956
Pilot - Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Rating (over 9000 hours flying time)
1975
BS Business Administration, University of New Hampshire
1981
Qualified Securities and Exchange Commission, Series 7 Exam.
Arizona Real Estate License – #SA546641000
Memberships:
Red Rock Racers,
Vintage Auto Racing Assoc., Quiet Birdmen and many other organizations
in which he believes.
Activities:
Skiing, vintage
sports car auto racing, flying, sailing, hiking, real estate, stock & futures
investing, computer/web.
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Ed Hanley was born in Gardiner, Maine in 1935. He is the oldest of the
ten children of Florence (Higgins) and Edward E. Hanley Jr.
 He
was fortunate to have grown up in a neighborhood where there were
thirty, or more, of his cousins and other youngsters living within a
couple of square miles of his parents' home. It was a wonderful extended
family. And before the time of TV and computers, kids were required to
create their own entertainment so days were spent playing baseball,
skiing, camping out and all the other healthy activities that kept kids
happy and occupied.
Ed spent eleven years as an altar boy in Saint Joseph's Catholic Church
in Gardiner. He
played four sports in high school, lettering in all four; football,
hockey, track and basketball.
After graduating from the Gardiner High School in the class of ’53 he
attended St. Anselm’s College in Manchester, New Hampshire, on a
basketball scholarship, and began taking classes for pre-med . That same
year he joined the U.S. Navel Reserves since the Navy had a program that
would help pay some of the costs of college tuition. While attending an
air show at (the since closed) Greiner Air Base in Manchester, and
watching the United States Air Force flying demonstration team, the USAF
"Thunderbirds", he asked
one of the Thunderbird pilots what it would take for him to be able
to do the same thing. The young F-86 pilot advised him to go see a USAF
recruiter and see if he could qualify for the USAF Aviation Cadet
Program.
The next day he was standing in front of the USAF recruiting office when
they opened. He had been bitten badly by the ‘flying bug’ and he never
looked back. He was sent to a testing facility in up-state New York
where for three days he was poked, pulled and tested to see if he had
‘the right stuff’. After he passed all the testing he came home and told
his mother he was going to become an Air Force pilot, she said, ”I can’t
believe it!” He never forgot that, and has always wondered if she meant,
she was surprised he could do it, or she was fearful that he would.
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