Quick Takes – Air Cannes, NATA Board Changes

Air Cannes Take Eclipse 500
Air Cannes, a new European start up and a member of the newly formed Air Taxi Association Europe, recently was in Albuquerque to do the technical acceptance, of its first Eclipse 500 aircraft. The actual formal delivery has yet to happen, according to Eclipse.

NATA Board Changes
Jet Solutions' Dennis Keith took over as chair of the National Air Transportation Association recently while newly elected board members include Charles R. (Chuck) Cox, president, Northern Air, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Joe Fazio, general manager, Atlantic Aviation Services, Teterboro, New Jersey; and Ann Pollard, general manager, Shoreline Aviation, Marshfield, Massachusetts.
Additionally, Kurt Sutterer, president, Midcoast Aviation of St. Louis, is NATA's new vice chair, while John Lotz, president and CEO of Monterey Bay Aviation, stays on as NATA’s treasurer.
Michael H. Grossmann, president of Castle Aviation in North Canton, Ohio, has retired from the Board at the end of his three year term. Reed W. Pigman, Jr., president of Texas Jet in Fort Worth, Texas, remains on the board as immediate past chairman.