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On March 1st 2010 Helmut Himmelreich will be taking up the recently vacated post of Chief Maintenance Officer. That was the decision reached by Air Berlin

As of February 12th Robert Anton takes over as AFI

Guggenheim Aviation Partners, a leading participant in the commercial aircraft leasing market, announced that Joe Gleeson has been appointed senior technical director. Gleeson was most recently the head of technical EMEA & APAC at AerCap, where he managed the technical team responsible for aircraft placement, transitions and on-lease management, and where he was previously responsible

Universal Asset Management names Terri Bailey as Director of Asset Management. This new position expands UAM

United Airlines has named Rohit Philip to the newly created role of senior vice president

American International Group, Inc. (AIG) and International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC) announced that Steven F. Udvar-Hazy will retire as director and chief executive officer of ILFC, effective February 5, 2010. The ILFC Board is considering the long-term management of ILFC, and President John Plueger will succeed Mr. Udvar-Hazy as acting CEO.

Franck Terner is taking over from Alain Bassil at the helm of the European carrier’s aircraft maintenance arm. Alain Bassil himself has taken up extended duties as Chief Operating Officer at Air France.

Limco-Piedmont, a fully owned subsidiary of TAT Technologies announced that Mr. Itsik Maaravi has been named Chief Marketing Officer of Limco-Piedmomt. Mr. Maaravi, formerly Vice President Marketing for Kamor Aviation and Director of Sales for Bedek Aviation Group, Israel Aerospace Industries, will be responsible for all marketing and business development for Piedmont Aviation Component Services

In a move to strengthen processes, tools and functional excellence, Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Albaugh announced the following appointments: Howard Chambers will lead a newly created Commercial Airplanes function, Program Management; Tim Copes was named vice president, Manufacturing and Quality; John Cornish was named vice president, 787 Final Assembly and

James Stewart has been appointed new Chief Executive Officer of SR Technics. As the company is entering its next phase of development and growth, it has been mutually agreed that Bernd Kessler will step down from his position as of 31 January 2010, having successfully implemented major restructuring initiatives as well as the repositioning of