JIM ROBINSON, the former president of AlliedSignal Engines, who recently took over at Learjet, has surprised the aerospace world by becoming president of Dornier.
Robinson will be based at Dornier's Oberpfaffenhofen headquarters, near Munich, to oversee the integration of the company with Fairchild Aircraft, which bought the majority share in Dornier from Daimler-Benz Aerospace on 5 June. Robinson had led a major modernisation effort at Learjet before promotion to president and was not expected to leave so suddenly. Replacing him at Learjet's Wichita site in Kansas is Lachlan (Mac) Beatson, who has been poached by Bombardier from AlliedSignal Aerospace, where he was most recently general manager of the Tucson site in Arizona.
In other moves, Carl Albert, chairman and chief executive of Fairchild has been appointed chairman of the management board and managing director of Fairchild Dornier Luftfahrt Beteiligungs, Dornier's parent, which produces the 328 and 228 regional airliners. Harold (Mac) Williams, president of Fairchild Aircraft, has also been appointed as a managing director of Fairchild Dornier.
Source: Flight International
