SWAT, Southwest Airframe & Tank Services, announces the expansion of its executive management team. Jesse Villegas has joined SWAT as its director of Quality Assurance for SWAT's 145 Repair Stations with intent to secure and grow its footprint as an efficient, customer-oriented, onsite airframe team specializing in structural and fuel-leak repair.

SWAT, Southwest Airframe & Tank Services, announces the expansion of its executive management team. Steven Riley Hall is now serving as director of Operations for SWAT's 145 Repair Stations with intent to secure and grow its footprint as an efficient, customer-oriented, onsite airframe team specializing in structural and fuel-leak repair.

American Airlines is providing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to add a loved one’s name to one of its planes in honor of those who are cancer survivors, current cancer fighters and those who lost their battle with cancer. Anyone who makes a donation of $25 or more to Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) during the month of July can add the name of a person they stand up for to an American Airlines Airbus A321. The plane, which will begin flying this fall, will be wrapped with a special SU2C design that includes names submitted.

Aspen Avionics announces it has received an FAA supplemental type certificate (STC) on its line of Evolution MAX primary and multi-function displays. With redesigned electronics and new glass, the Evolution MAX series offers a bolder and brighter display with higher reliability and several customer-requested functions, such as font and window enlargement and increased processing speeds — all while retaining Aspen’s unique form-factor design that keeps installation costs down.

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) releases the first building block to enable the safe operation of hybrid and electrical vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft.

Nextant Aerospace, a global leader in aircraft and component remanufacturing and the builder of the 400XTi, G90XT, and 604XT, announces the induction of the fifteenth aircraft to obtain a 604XT Pro Line Fusion® cockpit upgrade.

Peterborough-based aircraft parts distributor, KADEX Aero Supply, announces it is now a Canadian distributor for Superior Air Parts. With FAA Parts Manufacturer Approval (PMA) for over 2,000 aftermarket replacement parts, Superior Air Parts is the world’s leading manufacturer of FAA-approved replacement parts for Lycoming and Continental aircraft engines. 

Dedienne Aerospace announces the award of a new license agreement for nacelle ground support equipment (GSE) with the Aerostructures division of Collins Aerospace, which includes sales, maintenance, calibration, leasing and services.

FlightSafety International announces that Suren Meras has been promoted to executive director of Operations for the company’s global network of business and commercial aviation learning centers. Suren’s responsibilities include pilot, maintenance, cabin safety, dispatch and instructor training as well as customer support, courseware development and simulator operations.

Honeywell (NYSE: HON) is expanding the capabilities of its aerospace facility in Greer, SC, with the installation of a second electron-beam physical vapor deposition coater for thermal barrier coatings. A third coater is also scheduled to arrive by mid-2020.