Lombardo covers business aviation maintenance-related issues. He is also a writer and on-air reporter for AINtv. He has over 3000 articles published and is the author of several books on aircraft systems for pilots and on the topic of flight simulation.
He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in education from the University of Illinois, has taught aviation for over 35 years in industry and as a university professor and academic dean at three different universities. He is also a frequent seminar and after-dinner motivational speaker.&nbsp;
Lombardo holds an A&amp;P Certificate, ATP, CFI and Ground Instructor ratings. He was a corporate pilot and was a research pilot and flight instructor at the University of Illinois. An FAA Safety Counselor for over 25 years, he was one of the original 13 Counselors appointed to the FAA’s Airworthiness Safety Program for maintenance technicians.&nbsp;

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David A. Lombardo

Jeffrey Krantz, CEO and owner of Harry Krantz, LLC of New York, N.Y., was sentenced in U.S. District Court, Hartford, Conn., to three years of probation, a $100,000 fine, and ordered not to be directly or indirectly involved in the buying or selling of electronic parts for a period of two years related to his role in the sale of unapproved aircraft parts. In late July <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2015-08-03/long-island-ceo-pleads-guilty-remarked-parts-fraud">he pleaded guilty to wire fraud</a> for supplying customers with falsely remarked microprocessor chips. Krantz was also required to surrender control over Krantz LLC and all beneficial and/or financial interest.

 


In 2005, Krantz entered into a business relationship with Jeffrey Warga, the president and owner of Rhode Island-based Bay Components to sell military-grade microprocessor chips to Bay Components, which would in turn sell them to a Connecticut company. Krantz knew that the Connecticut company wanted new and original chips. Between 2005 and 2008, Krantz supplied more than 1,000 chips to Bay Components, which, in turn sold them to the Connecticut company. The court found that Krantz knew that the chips originated from a parts supplier in China and that there was a high probability that the chips were falsely remarked and not the original manufacturer’s.

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