From the Trenches

Banyan Air Service has hired Bill Garhill to be the new director of customer service. Garhill was previously a quality assurance manager with Raytheon and a line service manager. In addition, Banyan has also hired Jerry Proenza as the avionics service manager.

Crane Aerospace & Electronics appointed Jay Hall to the position of vice president business development.

Bob Haines has joined FlightSafety International as maintenance quality assurance/data analyst in the Little Rock training facility. His duties will include quality assurance of maintenance training and courseware revisions and standardization of Falcon maintenance training products.

Peg Billson has been named vice president and general manager of Honeywell's $1.8 billion airframe business, and Greg Albert has been named vice president and general manager of its $400 million aircraft landing systems business.

PAMA announced the winners of its annual awards:

Award of Excellence, Manuel "Sonny" Zapata, Sunshine Aviation PAMA/FlightSafety Foundation Joe Chase Award, Robert Marinace, New World Jet Corp.

Member Service Award, Craig Weller

Galland, Kharasch, Greenberg, Fellman & Swirsky, PC Chapter of the Year Award, First State Chapter (Delaware), Mike Harkins, president

PAMA/Aircraft Technical Publishers Award, Joe Esmerado, Raytheon Aircraft Services, Company Appreciation Award, FlightSafety International, Mike Lee, corporate vice president and Frontier Airlines, Jeff Potter, president.