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NBAA Awards Top Mechanics and Avionics Technicians

Each year, NBAA recognizes the top aviation maintenance and avionics technicians with excellent safety records who work for member companies.

By Mary F. Silitch

October 8, 2011

Each year, NBAA recognizes the top aviation maintenance and avionics technicians with excellent safety records who work for member companies. Maintaining corporate aircraft or avionics for three accident-free years is the minimum requirement for an NBAA Safety Award but the actual number of years for many of the top technicians adds up to four decades or more.

We have covered the top three–W.L. Kobs of Tri C (47 years of safe operation), John Bahrenburg of Meridian Teterboro/Meridian Air Charter (45 years) and Alberto Martinez of Honeywell International (43 years)–in these pages before. AIN talked with other top A&Ps and avionics technicians for 2010 to learn about their backgrounds and their safety philosophies.

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