Aviation News

David Ufen David Ufen has been appointed JA Air Center’s Director of Avionics. He was formerly at Elliott Aviation.

Gina Kvitkovich Gina Kvitkovich is Helicopter Association International’s new director of publications and media. She has 25 years of experience in a variety of publications.

Chris Dancy Chris Dancy, the long-time media relations director for AOPA, is the Helicopter Association International’s (HAI) director of communications and public relations.

Adam Tibbitts Adam Tibbitts is Flight Options’ new regional sales director for the Rocky Mountain area. He’s been in the business more than a decade and was recently at another fractional provider.

CHC Helicopters Joan Hooper has been named CHC Helicopter’s senior executive vice president and chief financial officer. She was formerly at AT&T and Dell.

Jace Stone Jace Stone is Gulfstream’s new director of product support sales for western North America and Hawaii. He was previously a sales manager for Gulfstream in Texas.

J. Mac McClellan J. Mac McClellan has been named the director of publications for EAA. He was contributing to the publications for the previous year after a long career as editor-in-chief of Flying magazine.

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The day before AOPA Aviation Summit opened this week in Hartford, Conn., the association hosted its second Flight Training Summit, for about 100 participants. During that event, AOPA introduced a demo of MyFlightTraining, an online personalized support system that aims to help student pilots achieve their goal of earning a pilot certificate. The program, which […]

At AOPA Summit on Friday, FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt announced that he signed off this week on creating a new Aviation Rulemaking Committee that will review the current flight-training rules. “The ARC will make recommendations as to how to improve testing and instruction,” he said. “This effort is part of a five-year plan for transforming […]