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Interview: Cindy Halsey

September 26, 2007

Passenger comfort drives design of Large Cabin Concept from Cessna

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AIN's D.C. editor earns NBAA’s Gold Wing Award

September 26, 2007

Paul Lowe, Washington, D.C. editor for Aviation International News, accepted NBAA’s 2007 Gold Wing Award for journalistic excellence from Ed Bolen, NBAA president and CEO, at the association’s annual media breakfast yesterday morning.The award recognized Lowe’s insightful and regular coverage of the issues, proposals and debates concerning FAA funding and,...

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Huey Lewis to headline NBAA gala

September 26, 2007

Huey Lewis and the News will headline this year’s NBAA Benefit Gala tonight in the Murphy Ballroom at the Georgia World Congress Center.

“Do You Believe in Love,” “The Heart of Rock and Roll” and “The Power of Love” from the soundtrack to the movie Back to the Future are the band’s best-known hits from the 1980s.

According to NBAA, this year there’s more...

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Pentastar names new president

September 25, 2007

FBO operator, aircraft service provider and management specialist Pentastar Aviation (Booth No. 3351) has recently named a new president and CEO. Rick Maloney is an aviation industry veteran with 30 years of experience including positions as United Airlines vice president for flight operations, as well as the carrier’s system chief pilot.Most recently,...

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Safe Flying Awards: 50 Years

September 25, 2007

‘Safety first’ philosophy yields five decades without accidents

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Epps family was there from Georgia’s aviation beginning

September 25, 2007

Ben Epps, Aviation Pioneer

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Maintenance/Avionics Technician Awards

September 25, 2007

Common sense, high standards are operators’ safety ‘secrets’

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Universal Avionics Cofounder Retires

September 25, 2007

Universal Avionics Systems Corp. of Tucson, Ariz., announced that Charles Edmondson, one of the founders of the company along with the late Hubert Naimer, has retired. The two men founded the company in Torrance, Calif., in 1980. As executive vice president, Edmondson had responsibility for Universal Avionics’ worldwide operations. More recently, he served...

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Former PrivatAir Execs Launch Alerion

September 25, 2007

Two former PrivatAir vice presidents have launched Alerion, a charter brokerage firm with operations in Connecticut, New York, California and Florida. The company arranges corporate, individual and family charter services and offers management and advisory services to its clients. “Coming from years of experience in the aviation industry, I could see what...

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Hill Aircraft & Leasing Names President and VP

September 25, 2007

Atlanta-area FBO Hill Aircraft & Leasing (Booth No. 1907) has promoted Larry Westbrook to president and Mark Fields to vice president. Previous president Guy Hill, Jr.–the son of founder Guy Hill, Sr.–becomes CEO and chairman of the board. Westbrook, who holds a commercial pilot certificate, joined the company in 1981 and has spent his aviation career...

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Meritorious Service Award: Bryan Moss

September 24, 2007

“Ken Emerick, chairman of NBAA board of directors, caught me at the airport, on my way to Saudi Arabia to meet with King Abdullah, to tell me I had been selected to receive the NBAA Award for Meritorious Service to Aviation,” Gulfstream president emeritus Bryan Moss told NBAA Convention News. “The award was a complete and total surprise,” said Moss, who was...

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Former Thunderbird pilot embraces corporate flying

September 24, 2007

Business aviation attracts pilots with wide-ranging experiences, whose career paths may have taken them in a hundred different directions before they landed in the cockpit of a Gulfstream, Hawker or Falcon.

Take for example Ron Mumm, the director of flight operations for Atlanta Falcon owner Arthur Blank’s AMB Group. Mild-mannered and affable, Mumm today...

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AIN Audiocast: Brad Hatt, Hawker Beechcraft president of commercial sales

September 24, 2007

Wichita-based Hawker Beechcraft is enjoying its newfound independence at the NBAA Convention this week in Atlanta, but the aircraft manufacturer says it isn’t ready to announce any new aircraft quite yet. However, it does have several upgrade programs already under way for its King Air and Hawker lines, so AIN spoke with Hawker Beechcraft president of...

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Doswell Award: E. Patrick “Pat” Epps

September 24, 2007

NBAA honors Georgia aviation icon with lifetime-achievement award

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