Resume of Ed Hanley

• 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, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
       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 many of the houses his family lived 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. 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:
  § Realtor with Coldwell Banker First Affiliate in Sedona, Arizona
  § Owner/manager of Sedona Reclaimed Lumber Company, a dealer    in recycled  construction materials
  § Director and President Cup of Gold Water Company, Sedona, Arizona
  § Director Emeritus – Marilyn Sunderman Foundation – provides scholarship funds to teachers.
  § 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 -1989 – 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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AND THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER......

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Edward E. Hanley III
Coldwell Banker 1st Affiliate
195 W. Hwy 89A Sedona, AZ 86336
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