Story ID: 160MxConferenceAINAug17EditedByAY_NM
NBAA Maintenance Conference Welcomes Tech Tribe
By: Matt Thurber
Caption: This year’s NBAA Maintenance Conference signaled a renewed focus on serving the needs of business aircraft maintenance technicians.
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At this year’s NBAA Maintenance Conference, held in West Palm Beach, Fla., in May, the first order of business was explaining the change to the event’s name. After last year’s Maintenance Management Conference, the NBAA Maintenance Committee decided to shorten the event’s name to the NBAA Maintenance Conference.

Jon Haag, president of Haag Aviation, is stepping down as chairman of the NBAA Maintenance Committee this month. “The Maintenance Management Conference served us well,” he said, “but right now we’re trying to reach out to maintenance [personnel] and the maintenance function, so the management part of it doesn’t really work for us anymore. It is important to us to make sure that maintenance people get a chance to come to this. This is one of the premier conferences for the maintenance technician and for the maintenance function in the industry.”