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Tracor
John Johnson has been promoted to vice-president of engineering at aerial-target company Tracor Flight Systems, of Austin, Texas. Johnson, formerly director of engineering, was previously engineering project manager for Honeywell's Defense Avionics Systems division. Source: Flight International
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Cirrus
James Griswold has become vice-president of engineering at Cirrus Design, of Duluth, Minnesota, with responsibility for US Federal Aviation Administration certification, and delivery of, the SR20 four-seat business aircraft. Griswold, who has helped develop regulatory policy for the FAA, was founder and president of Questair and has held positions with ...
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Litton
Timothy Westover has been appointed president of the Litton Systems Canada subsidiary of Litton Industries of Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada. He succeeds Thomas McGuigan, who has resigned. Westover was formerly vice-president of business management at Litton Laser Systems division, of Apopka, Florida. Source: Flight International
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Avatar
James Niece has been appointed vice-president of marketing and sales at Avatar Alliance, of Fairburn, Georgia. He was formerly head of consultancy James Niece and Associates of Umatilla, Florida, and, before that, he was group director for sales and marketing at Aviall Aviation Sales, based in Miami, Florida. ...
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Hughes Avicom
Airline cabin-management and entertainment-systems company Hughes Avicom International, of Pomona, California, has appointed Ronald Kiripolsky senior vice-president for operations. He has previously held positions with American Airlines, Continental Airlines, Pacific Southwest Airlines and was president of overhauler Dalfort Aviation. Source: Flight International
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K-C Aviation
Service company K-C Aviation, of Dallas, Texas, has named Charles Emering regional sales manager for the north-eastern region. He was previously director of maintenance for Atlantic Aviation Flight Services of Teterboro, New Jersey. Charles Emering is named regional sales manager for the north-eastern region at maintainer and overhauler ...
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Aviall
Cornelius Van Den Handel has become treasurer and director of planning at aviation-parts distributor Aviall, of Dallas, Texas. He was most recently director of financial planning and analysis. Charles Kienzle has been named senior vice-president of operations He was most recently senior vice-president of operations at Aviall US Engine Services, ...
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DERA
Joe Carr has been appointed director of technology conversion for the defence-research sector of the UK Ministry of Defence's Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA), on secondment from UK specialist engineering company TI Group. Carr, who is technology director at TI, will be on the secondment for a year. ...
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Sundstrand
James Smith is named vice-president for business development at components and subsystems supplier Sundstrand, of Rockford, Illinois. David Linton becomes vice-president for programmes. Smith, with Sundstrand for 33 years, replaces Ronald McKenna, who becomes corporate executive vice-president and chief operating officer for aerospace. Source: Flight ...
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AAR acquires
AAR has acquired more than 22,000 items of excess inventory from Hamilton Standard, with a catalogue value exceeding $200 million. AAR will market the inventory, including engine and auxiliary-power-unit accessories, which will be kept in and distributed from Hamilton Standard warehouses. Source: Flight International
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Interstate approval
Interstate Electronics' IEC 9002 global-positioning-system-based flight-management system has received US certification for en route and terminal navigation and non-precision approaches. Source: Flight International
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Airport orders
Airport Systems International, of Overland Park, Kansas, has received orders totalling $2.9 million to supply navigation aids for civil and military customers in Asia. The include two VHF omni-range systems, two distance-measuring equipment and two instrument-landing systems. Source: Flight International
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Catia upgrade
ICE has released upgraded Assembly Manager Version 4 software to enable Dassault CATIA computer-aided-design package users to develop three-dimensional assemblies and mock-ups without the need for an external database. The UK company says that its customers, which include GE Aircraft Engines and Lockheed Martin, asked for the upgrade. ...
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Standard software
Allied Signal Engines is to standardise on Structural Dynamics Research's Metaphase Series 2 product-data-management software, to manage and control work flow, bills of material, configuration and change in engineering and product support. Source: Flight International
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Flight planning
Allied Signal Aerospace and Jeppesen are to combine weather-briefing and international flight-planning services under an agreement announced on 17 July. Notifications to airmen for more than 10,000 airports throughout the world will be available under the combined scheme, which is expected to generate cost savings for most users. ...
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Thai training
France's Aerospatiale's general-aviation subsidiary, Socata, has sold four TB20 Trinidads to Thailand's Civil Aviation Training Centre. The aircraft will be added to the current fleet of five TB9 Tampicos, and will be used for ab initio training of pilots destined to join flag carrier Thai Airways International, the Royal Thai ...