West Star Aviation announces Chuck Conway has been promoted to Avionics supervisor at its East Alton (ALN) facility. Conway will be supervising Embraer avionics projects at the full-service ALN location.

Carpenter Avionics, the largest avionics service center in the MidSouth region of the U.S. and a multi-year national award-winning FAA Repair Station, announces that the company name has been changed. The company now is known as Forge Flightworks to better reflect the company’s expanded mission to offer a broader array of installation, repair, interiors and related services for general-aviation aircraft.

Promise to Perform Industries, Inc., announces it acquired substantially all the assets of Transol Corporation on Oct. 29, 2021. The acquisition includes all of Transol Corporation’s subsidiaries, including Spanco, Inc.; Rigid Lifelines, Inc.; and Lug-All Corporation — American manufacturers of overhead material-handling systems, fall protection systems, and manual cable and web-strap come-along ratchet winch hoists, respectively.

On behalf of the National Air Transportation Association (NATA) membership and staff, president and CEO, Timothy Obitts, expresses sorrow over the sudden loss of longtime staff member M. Johanna (Sigmond) O’Toole, who passed away unexpectedly last week.

Stevens Aerospace and Defense Systems, LLC (“Stevens”), announces that it has started construction on its new MRO facility in Smyrna, TN. The first phase of the facility will provide 57,000 square feet of operational space, and phase two will see an additional 40,000 square feet of hangar space.

Aerospace modification center Pro Star Aviation, in partnership with ALTO Aviation, announces that it has designed, installed and delivered a Cadence cabin management system (CMS) on a GIVSP for an obsolete Pacific Systems/Collins Aerospace architecture.

Duncan Aviation announces that Ann Pollard has joined its Aircraft Sales & Acquisitions team. Pollard will be based out of a new sales office co-located with the company’s satellite facility at Bedford-Hanscom Field, MA (KBED).

BizJet International Sales and Support, Inc., announces that Thomas Illner has joined BizJet as its new president and CEO on July 1, 2021. Illner succeeds Volker Magunna, who has accepted a position within the Lufthansa Technik Group as the president of Hawker Pacific.

Pro Star Aviation, an aerospace modification center, announces it has successfully achieved its FAA Class IV rating. The new rating allows Pro Star to perform maintenance on aircraft over 12,500 GTOW. Adding a new classification of aircraft increases Pro Star's capabilities for ON-THE-FLY maintenance and additional services in-house.

Constant Aviation announces it has become the first independent maintenance, repair and overhaul business (MRO) to receive SMS Level 4 certification from WYVERN Ltd., a recognized leader in aviation safety risk management and training. The rating is specific to MRO safety management systems (SMS). Level 4-rated MROs have a fully effective SMS.