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Aviation History
1998
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PEOPLE • JET AVIATION Capt Herbert Naef has been appointed chief pilot at Zurich, Switzerland-based aircraft man agement and charter company Jet Aviation Business Jets. With Jet Aviation for seven years, Naef has held the positions of manag er flight standards, instruc tor/training captain on Chal lengers and Falcons and, most recently, he was fleet chief for die Falcon and Challenger. • MATRABAe Alan Garwood has been named deputy chief executive at Matra BAe Dynamics. He was formerly managing director for the Europe and North America region at IMSO, the international sales and marketing organisation of British Aerospace, following 19 years with BAe Dynamics. • BAe Professor Dave Gardner, deputy managing director of British Aero space's Military Aircraft and Aero- structures unit, has been named engineering director and will sit on the executive committee. Peter Anstiss, sales and marketing sup port director at Military Aircraft and Aerostructures, becomes chief executive of British Aerospace Aus tralia from 1 November. • HAWKER PACIFIC Dennis Biety has been appointed managing director of Hawker Pacific Aerospace's UK and Netherlands facilities, based at Nieuw Vennep, near Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. Philip Panzera is named vice-president of corpo rate development. Biety was for merly president of Messier Ser vices America (until recently Dowry Aerospace Aviation Ser vices), while Panzera joins Hawker with a background in operations and finance. • LORAL Richard Townsend has become senior vice-president and chief financial officer of satellite manu facturing and service company Lo ral Space & Communications of New York, USA. He was formerly corporate controller and director of strategy at defence electronics company ITT Industries. • AIRPROX Air Cdre Gordon McRobbie has been appointed the first director of the UK Airprox Board by the Civil Aviation Authority and the Royal Air Force. The board was estab lished earlier this year following a study on "airmiss", or air proximi ty, incidents. • GKN WESTLAND GKN Westland Aerospace of the Isle of Wight, UK, has appointed Martin Williams chief operating officer, Jimmy Johnston human resources director and Philip Grainger business improvement director. Williams joins from Lucas Aerospace, where he was general manager, operations-elec tronics. Johnston was formerly director of human resources Europe with Delco Electronics Overseas, based in Germany, and Grainger was formerly GKN Wesdand's director of engineering. • NORTHROP Biggs Porter has been appointed sector vice-president of business management for Northrop Grum- man's new Integrated Systems and Aerostructures (ISA) sector in Dallas, Texas, USA. Previously, he held the same position at the for mer Commercial Aircraft division, which became part of ISA when die sector was formed in August 1998. • FAA Suzanne Sullivan has been named assistant administrator for govern ment and industry affairs at the US Federal Aviation Administration of Washington DC. Sullivan, who also held positions with the US Department of Transportation (DoT), including that of deputy- chief of staff, succeeds Bradley Mims, who becomes DoT deputy assistant secretary for aviation and international affairs. • SAAB Steven Lever has been named di rector of marketing and sales at Sweden's Saab Aircraft Leasing, one of three new business units under Saab's Commercial Aircraft Group. He was formerly managing director of Lever Aviation, his own remarketing company. • FSI Bill Nugent has been promoted to executive director of government contracts, at New York La Guardia, USA-based FlightSafety Inter national. He has been with the company for 15 years and was pre viously director of marketing administration and of government contracts and training. Michael Grabbe joins the company as director of maintenance training, from a technical college teaching position. I le has held positions with manufacturers Lycoming and Gulfstream Commander. • FSI BOEING Mark Tomasevich has been appointed director of maintenance training marketing at FlightSafety- Boeing of La Guardia Airport. New York, USA. He was most recently manager of maintenance training for the Boeing 747 and special courses. • LYNTON Lori Wilson joins the US/UK based aircraft sales company, the Lynton Group, as manager of air craft acquisitions. Wilson, who will be based at Morristown Airport, New Jersey, USA, was formerly a senior supervisor with aircraft database research firm Amstat. Following the recent acquisition of Air Hanson, Keith Woolley will join the Lynton sales team. • TRANS ARABIAN Omar Khair has joined Sudan- based Trans Arabian Air Trans port's operational team at London Heathrow Airport, UK, as aviation advisor to the chairman. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 28 October - 3 November 1998 45
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