NBAA Sets Leadership at Annual Meeting

At the recent NBAA annual meeting, the association’s board of directors held elections and named its new leadership. Paul Anderson, vice president of United Technologies’ flight department UTFlight, succeeded Ron Duncan of General Communications as chairman of the board.

Meanwhile, L-3 Communications Holdings’ Lloyd "Fig" Newton replaced Anderson as NBAA’s vice chairman/treasurer. Anderson, a former U.S. Army Master Aviator holds ratings in several military and commercial helicopters as well as a helicopter ATP. Newton, with nearly 270 combat missions under his belt retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2000 as a four-star general, having served as the Air Force’s liaison to the U.S. House of Representatives, head of the Air Education and Training Command and later Pratt & Whitney’s executive vice president of military programs and business development.

In addition, the voting members elected Honeywell’s William Ayer and Scott Moore, aviation department manager for family-owned, Virginia-based Luck Companies, to the 18-member board of directors for three-year terms, expiring in 2018.