Worst place/person you could ever get involved with! Deceptive sales practices as others have posted. As a flight instructor, he is one of the worst. I have multiple students that have come to me with incomplete logbook endorsements and downright fraudulent entries. One guy said that Dean charged him for training then requested an hour for hour use of the customers aircraft as a requirement to get training. Maybe one day a long time ago he was ok but now he's lost it (if he ever had it). STAY FAR AWAY read more

While in the market for an airplane, I answered an add for a Cessna 172. I spoke with a man, Dean Castang and arranged to fly from the Inland Empire to Fresno to look it. All of his info indicated that he was a broker while speaking with him on the phone, his listing, the business card he handed me as soon as I landed, etc. Once it came time to write a deposit check he told me to write it to the other gentleman that was present during the inspection of the plane. He said he was the owner of the plane. (a broker acts as a fiduciary agent on my behalf and holds the deposit in case the plane does not check out, just like purchasing a house). Come to find out the other man was NOT the registered owner of the plane, as he told me he was. After checking with the FAA it turns out the "seller/owner" of the plane was trying to flip the plane without paying taxes by putting the title in my name from the guy he purchased it from 30 days ago, (it was owned by 2 people, one had passed away so this would have been a nightmare for me to register). Dean Castang goes by the company of Aircraftmart.us THAT IS FRAUD! STAY AWAY. read more