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Constant Aviation, a maintenance, repair, and overhaul facility headquartered at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, released that Jay Randall has been named the Great Lakes Regional Sales Manager. Jay comes to Constant most recently from Dallas Airmotive where he was responsible for the sale of engine maintenance services specializing in PTA6, JT-15, Spey, Tay and Gulfstream […]

STS Component Solutions announced the addition of Armando Barroso to its team as the Director, Business Development focusing on Engines, APU’s and Landing Gear.  In addition to establishing support programs for Engines, LRU’s, APU’s, and landing gear components, he will be responsible for leading growth into the Engine marketplace by locating assets, performing engine inspections, and managing

Effective 1st December 2011, Alan Hood has been appointed Managing Director, for Aircelle, an Aircelle (Safran group) subsidiary located in Burnley, Lancashire – United Kingdom. He succeeds Andrew White who has moved to another position within Safran Group.

GA Telesis named Russell Bonnell, President of its MRO division, effective January 1, 2012. Consisting of two businesses – GA Telesis Composite Repair Group, based in Ft. Lauderdale and GA Telesis Component Repair Group Southeast, based at Miami International Airport – the division has over 100 employees and is a significant portion of GA Telesis’

The Governing Board of oneworld, the premier global airline alliance, has elected American Airlines Chairman, President and Chief Executive Tom Horton as its Chairman. He takes on the role from Gerard Arpey, whom he succeeded at the helm of the alliance’s US partner late last month following Mr Arpey’s decision to retire from the carrier.

The Chief Executive Board of Star Alliance has appointed Mark Schwab to head the Star Alliance central organisation, based in Frankfurt, Germany as its new Chief Executive. Schwab comes from Star Alliance member United where he was responsible for the company’s alliances as Senior Vice President Alliances. He succeeds Jaan Albrecht, who was appointed as CEO

TAT Technologies has appointed Itsik Maaravi as its new President and Chief Executive Officer effective January 1, 2012. Mr. Maaravi is currently President of TAT’s Piedmont Aviation Component Services, LLC subsidiary (“Piedmont”), a position he has held since July 2011.

Messier-Bugatti-Dowty has appointed Gilles Garczynski, as Executive Vice President, Human Resources. He replaces Stéphane Legrand, who has transferred to another position within the Safran group.

Effective 01 October 2011, Holger Beck, previously Chief Operating Officer of Lufthansa Technical Training, is now heading the Marketing, Sales & Product Management division in his function as Chief Commercial Officer. Karsten Schmidt has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of Lufthansa Technical Training on 14 November 2011. Before, he worked as Managing Director of Lufthansa

Bombardier Aerospace promoted Raphael Haddad to the position of Vice President, Sales, Middle East and Africa, Bombardier Commercial Aircraft and Torbjorn (Toby) Karlsson as Vice President, Sales, Asia-Pacific, Bombardier Commercial Aircraft. Stephen Young was appointed to the position of Vice President, Sales, Aircraft Leasing Companies Bombardier Commercial Aircraft.