Author: Patrick Recer
West Star is pleased to announce the promotion of James Davis to Gulfstream Program Manager at their East Alton, IL (ALN) facility. James started his aviation career back in 1996 and has held a variety of positions within the industry, coming to West Star in 2014 he has held both Team Lead and Supervisory positions. […]
West Star is pleased to announce the promotion of Sean Ertz to Technical Sales Manager-Textron at their Chattanooga, TN (CHA) facility. Sean has over 18 years of aviation experience, previously working at various Part 91 and Part 145 operations as a DOM before joining West Star. His most recent role was the Project Manager for […]
West Star is pleased to announce the promotion of Charles Brooks to 2nd Shift Manager at their East Alton, IL (ALN) facility. Charles started in aviation in 2005 and has held positions at Hawker Beechcraft. and Dassault Falcon Jet prior to taking a position with West Star Aviation in 2016. While at West Star Aviation, […]
West Star Aviation has promoted Corey Boardman to the position of Bombardier Team Lead at the Chattanooga, TN (CHA) location. Boardman will be responsible for working with Lead Technicians, training and mentoring efforts as well as assisting in the management of day to day operations. Boardman has been with West Star Aviation for 14 years […]
West Star is pleased to announce the promotion of Ryan Gibbs to Director of Falcon Business Development at their East Alton, IL (ALN) location. Ryan has more than 21 years of aviation experience and has been with West Star since 2004 in a variety of sales and management positions. He will be responsible for the […]
West Star is pleased to announce Allen McReynolds as their new Chief Operating Officer (COO), starting Monday September 11, 2023. Allen’s primary role as COO will be to support employees by making strategic investments in people, training, tooling, technology and processes, while improving our safety, on-time and squawk-free delivery performance to our valued customers. Allen […]
West Star Aviation is pleased to announce that Eric Valdes has accepted the Program Director role responsible for Embraer, Accessories, and NDT at the company’s East Alton, IL (ALN) facility. Eric has over 30 years of aviation experience, with the past 16 years at WSA. He served in the U.S. Air Force as an AWACS […]
One characteristic that makes West Star Aviation a great MRO is the opportunity to always learn from both positive and negative experiences. Recently Mike Hart of AVweb penned a great article on July 6, 2023 that goes in-depth about how the Human Factor plays a major role in flight and maintenance incidents. At the very […]
A Challenger 601 suffered a bird strike and was grounded at KHOU. Bombardier wanted to bring in a team and perform the permanent repairs on-site. The Customer preferred to pursue a repair at our PCD MRO. Two West Star Aviation MRT Structure Technicians traveled to the Customer’s base hangar and began an evaluation. After establishing and […]
As West Star Aviation prides itself on the experience and skill of our technicians and specialists, we feel it is valuable to our customers and other operators to share observations, solutions and information directly from the shop floor. After all, communication and the sharing of information is the key to not only our success as […]
