CCAir d/b/a US Airways Express named Al Beamon VP of maintenance. Beamon most recently was director of maintenance for US Airways at its Charlotte, N.C., hub.
The Dee Howard Co. named E. Wayne Hogue director of marketing for thrust reversers. Hogue was manager of thrust reverser sales and manufactured products.
Lockheed Martin named Terry A. Graham executive VP and COO of its Marietta, Ga.-based aeronautical systems division. Graham most recently was executive VP and COO of Allison Engine Co.
Western Data Systems will equip World Aviation Support with its CompassENTERPRISE system to streamline World Aviation's overhaul and hangar operations at London Southend Airport.
AlliedSignal elected Frederic M. Poses president and COO of the company. He succeeds Daniel P. Burnham, who resigned to become president and COO of Raytheon. Poses was vice chairman of AlliedSignal.
C-S Aviation Services named Herbert J. Lanese to its advisory board. Lanese most recently was president and chief executive of Behlman Automotive Group, and is former president of McDonnell Douglas Aerospace.
Burbank Aeronautical Corp. signed an agreement with Emery Worldwide Airlines to deliver nine shipsets of Stage 3 ADC Upgrade Hushkits for Emery's DC-8-62/63 aircraft. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in October. Emery also has options for seven additional shipsets for delivery in 1999.
An initiative to develop a more targeted, less random carrier-oversight plan is generating cheers from the agency and from the industry -- in Washington. But a report coming in from the field tells a somewhat different story. According to an internal FAA report obtained by O&M, a test group of field inspectors found difficulties in putting the new program into practice, and they agree with industry that it will be difficult to get the program off and running by its designated Oct. 1 starting date.
Photograph: A mechanic works on a DC-9 horizontal stabilizer at Northwest Airlines' Duluth Maintenance Base in Minnesota. James Ott Northwest Airlines' Duluth Maintenance Base, the first and only airline facility dedicated to the Airbus A320 twinjet, has been distinctive from its cold and uncertain start on a January morning more than six years ago.
Airwork opened a 5,500-sq. ft. satellite shop in Wichita that is twice as large as its previous shop. Company also plans to expand other shops, and to announce the opening of a new facility in the Midwest.
Fairchild Aerospace named Joe Breeman senior VP-customer support. Breeman most recently was VP-engineering and fleet reliability for Northwest Airlines.
U.S. airlines, spending anywhere from $4 million to $160 million each on Year 2000 (Y2K) compliance, are making good progress, according to an Air Transport Association (ATA) official. Most carriers are estimating they will spend about $20 million to reach Y2K compliance, according to recent airline filings with the Securities&Exchange Commission. But Delta estimated it would spend $160 million to get its systems into shape.
Dassault Falcon Jet Corp. named Jacques Rossarie VP for total quality; Robert Smith director of commercial completions, and Robert Clossin director of interior engineering at its Little Rock, Ark., completions center.
Lockheed Martin Aircraft&Logistics Centers named David Dacquino VP and general manager of its new logistics services business. Greg Wallace will succeed Dacquino as leader of field teams and site operations.
Inventory Locator Services (ILS) will expand its on-line information services to 600 users under a contract with the Defense Supply Center, Columbus. DSCC will use ILS services to supplement normal purchasing activity in servicing more than 24,000 military and civilian customers, and 10,000 contractors.
Derco Aerospace was chosen by Hellenic Aerospace Industries to aid in carrying out Hellenic's service life extension program for the Greek Air Force's fleet of F-4E Phantoms.
Gulf Aircraft Maintenance Co. (GAMCO) will provide spare engine storage services for Pratt&Whitney's fleet management program customers in the Middle East region. GAMCO will store spare JT9D-7R4 engines that power A310-200s.
Signature Flight Support named Bruce Van Allen president and CEO. Van Allen most recently was executive VP and COO for Signature. Also, Gary Boekenkamp was named senior VP of marketing.
In aviation, where a single accident can be a disaster that negates a million safe cycles, safety demands a systems approach that controls all aspects of new-entrant airline development and operation. It is apparent that, to achieve sufficient protection against potentially disastrous accidents, FAA has to limit accident causes. It is not so apparent, though, how to do so.
InterJet Online Services created an on-line aviation sales site to link carriers, charter operators and general aviation with parts and services. Site is located at www.interjet-osi.com.
Boeing will upgrade U.S. Army CH-47D Chinook helicopters under a $76 million contract. Contract is first part of multi-billion-dollar Improved Cargo Helicopter program, aimed at modernizing at least 300 heavy lift CH-47Ds to operate until 2020.
Additional U.S. funding has been approved to extend a Colombian security forces program to upgrade Bell UH-1 Iroquois utility helicopters to UH-1P Huey II standard, for about $1 million each. Flight development began in late 1997 of the first FAC UH-1 modified by Bell Helicopter Textron, which is now providing kits for Colombia's Corporacion de la Industria Aeronautics (CIAC) to upgrade 18 Iroquois from more than 32 used by the military and police for drug interdiction and associated roles.
Guy Gardner, FAA's associate administrator for regulation and certification, is leaving his position in September, two years after taking the job. According to FAA, Gardner plans to pursue a career as a motivational speaker for high school and middle school students. FAA has not identified any candidates to replace him.
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With David Esler's cover story on Electronic Management, ``The Future has Arrived (Finally),'' we launch an occasional series of articles on information technology and its effect on the aviation/aerospace maintenance, repair and overhaul industry. We intend to examine how airlines and other operators, third-party providers, OEMs, distributors and suppliers and others are using technology to improve efficiency, ensure safety and gain a competitive edge. Conversely, we also will cover why some operations continue to swear by their paper-based systems.
