Alan D. Purwin

Alan D. Purwin was a helicopter pilot, stunt pilot, aerial coordinator and world-renowned aviator who worked as helicopter pilot on . Born in Los Angeles, California, Purwin was the founder and executive of the company Helinet Aviation Services located in Van Nuys, California.
Purwin also built up the companies Cineflex, VideoFort, and Team5. In 2005, he was called to provide support to the US Coast Guard and organized a team which he flew out to New Orleans. His team supplied the first disaster images from the hurricane Katrina to the Coast Guard and Homeland Security.
For over three decades he worked as aerial coordinator, stunt pilot, or helicopter pilot on film and television productions including (1984-1987), (1993) and (1997), (1997), (1998), (2000), (2007) (2009), (2009, directed by Justin Lin), (2014), (2015), (2015), and (2016).
In 2002, Purwin received a Taurus World Stunt Award nomination in the category Best Aerial Work for his contribution to . In 2012, he was part of the stunt cast of the sequel Transformers: Dark of the Moon which received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination in the category Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture.
Purwin died in a plane crash near Medellin, Colombia after wrapping filming on the Universal Pictures crime thriller American Made (formerly called Mena) on . The crash was attributed to bad weather.
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