Gregory Polek has spent his entire career in aviation journalism with AIN, starting as a proofreader and assistant to then-managing editor Mary Mahoney in 1995 after serving an internship with&nbsp;New Jersey Monthly&nbsp;magazine and completing his B.A. degree in English/Writing at New Jersey’s William Paterson College. By 1997 Polek accepted a position as an associate editor, covering the regional airline beat for&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;in place of retiring industry veteran Don Anderson. The assignment took Polek across North America and Europe to profile regional airlines varying in size and mission from the likes of floatplane operators Kenmore Air and Chalk’s Ocean Airways to regional jet operators such as SkyWest and American Eagle. Today, in his dual role as Air Transport Editor and International Airshow Editor, Polek writes, edits, and manages AIN’s commercial aviation content while overseeing each of the company’s daily international air show publications in Paris, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai. Most recently Polek has assumed oversight of daily coverage of the Helicopter Association International’s annual Heli-Expo convention.

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AIN Media Group is partnering with the International Aircraft Dealers Association (IADA) to bring IADA’s AircraftExchange.com business aircraft search portal to AIN’s global audience. AIN president Ruben Kempeneer and IADA executive director Wayne Starling announced the partnership on Wednesday at NBAA-BACE.
The partnership will give AIN’s audience access to an “Aircraft for Sale” tab on the AINonline homepage. Clicking the tab will send potential aircraft buyers to a search page from which users can access a listing of exclusive aircraft models validated by IADA-accredited dealers’ listings on AircraftExchange.
The IADA portal allows users to create a confidential dashboard of business jets for sale, filtered based on their features and amenities, class size, age, and price.
“This partnership benefits IADA’s members by introducing AIN’s highly qualified and engaged global audience to AircraftExchange,” explained Kempeneer. “The partnership also gives AIN readers easy access to the premier listing of business aircraft for sale.”
IADA’s Starling highlighted the two companies’ cultural alignment and mutual business interests. “This new relationship is a perfect fit culturally as IADA and AIN support owners and operators of aircraft with accurate and valuable information that encourages a vibrant aircraft resale industry and transparent transactions. Additionally, it gives IADA dealers a much wider audience through AIN’s premier online suite of publications.”
Consisting of the top 17 percent of the world’s experts handling 50 percent of used business aircraft sales, IADA’s dealers buy and sell more aircraft by dollar volume than the rest of the world’s dealers combined. They average more than 1,300 business aircraft transactions worth $11.8 billion a year.

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