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John R. Gawsyszawski has been appointed Chief Executive Officer for the Victorville, CA based Pacific Aerospace Resources & Technologies (PART). John joined PART in 2014 as Chief Operating Officer and succeeds David Green who is now Chairman of the Board. Prior to joining PART, John served as VP of Business Development at Air Services based […]

Boeing named Jeff Johnson, vice president, Business Development, Boeing Military Aircraft (BMA). He succeeds Tim Norgart, who recently retired from Boeing. Johnson will be based in St. Louis, Missouri, and report to BMA President Shelley Lavender. Johnson has been president of Boeing Middle East since March 2011, based in the company’s Dubai office. Before that,

Following the restructure of the sales department, Avtrade appointed five new Regional Account Managers: Zaid Garnie, Cedric Fernandez, Marco Pozzato, Gavin Morris and Francois Rault. As part of their new roles, they will each be responsible for different regions in Europe. Zaid will be responsible for applying his wealth of sales expertise to growing the

As of April 1st, 2015, Dr. Johannes Bussmann will become Chairman of the Executive Board of Lufthansa Technik AG, replacing August Wilhelm Henningsen, who is retiring after fourteen years at the helm of the company. Johannes Bussmann, who holds a doctorate in aerospace engineering, has been a member of the Executive Board since September 2012

CIRCOR France, a business unit of CIRCOR International, has appointed Frédéric Gréhal as General Manager for France. He will report directly to CIRCOR Aerospace & Defense President Vincent Sandoval. Gréhal comes to CIRCOR from Aubert et Duval, where he was the Vice President and Head of the Nuclear, Oil & Gas, Defense and Specialties business

Precision Castparts announced the planned retirement of Executive Vice President and President of Forged Products Kenneth Buck, during the first quarter of fiscal 2016. The operational responsibilities held by Mr. Buck will be divided between two executives. Andrew Masterman, President of Airframe Products, will assume responsibility for Wyman-Gordon, and Jim Pieron, President of PCC TIMET,

Republic Airways announced that Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Wayne C. Heller is retiring effective March 13, 2015. For more than 15 years, Mr. Heller has served as a senior leader at Republic Airways. He joined the airline in 1999 as Vice President of Flight Operations. In 2004, he was appointed to the

German General Aviation MRO FAI Technik GmbH, a subsidiary of the Air Ambulance and VIP-Charter Operator FAI rent-a-jet AG, announced that Alexander Mair, former Managing Director of RUAG Aerospace Services GmbH, responsible for RUAG´s General Aviation Business Unit in Germany, has joined FAI´s competence team as Commercial Director and will work alongside FAI´s Technical Director,

ATR appointed Christopher McGregor as Flight Safety Officer. Christopher will lead the ATR Flight Safety team to continually drive improvement in its product safety. In this position he is responsible for the development and implementation of the Flight Safety strategy within ATR. He is also in charge of safety communications to airlines and lessors, and

PEMCO World Air Services has undergone an internal corporate restructuring in an effort to improve operational efficiencies and continue the company’s growth and success. PEMCO World Air Services (PEMCO) has appointed Pastor Lopez as CEO of the Tampa, Florida-based aviation company. Bringing nearly 30 years of industry experience, Lopez is responsible for the growth and