Avionics News May 2014 - 10

AEA Elects New Chairman,
Vice Chairman, Board Members
David Loso begins new role as chairman
Members of the Aircraft Electronics Association
recently elected new representatives to its board of directors, and the AEA board of directors elected a new chairman and new vice chairman.
The new AEA chairman is David Loso, manager of
avionics sales for Jet Aviation St. Louis. He served as vice
David Loso
chairman the past year and replaces former chairman Gary
Harpster who will serve as immediate past chairman.
Loso was first elected to the AEA board of directors in 2009, and he has been in business aviation for
35 years. Loso began his career with Bellanca Aircraft
Company while attending Alexandria Technical College
in Alexandria, Minn. After graduation, he moved to
Gary Harpster
Wichita, Kan., taking a position with Cessna at the
Citation Service Center as an avionics technician. In
1979, Loso accepted an avionics bench technician position with Rockwell Collins in Wichita, Kan. In 1981, he
moved to Houston, Texas, to work for Garrett Aviation.
During the next 18 years with Garrett, he served in several positions with the avionics department, including
Michael Kus
avionics shop supervisor.
Loso returned to his hometown of St. Louis, Mo.,
in 1998, as director of avionics for JetCorp and then
moved to Premier Air Center four years later as director of avionics. Loso has been in avionics sales since
2005, first as national avionics sales manager with
Jet Aviation in West Palm Beach and now with Jet
Jim Joubert
Aviation St. Louis as a result of the merger of Midcoast
Aviation with Jet Aviation. Loso has served on the
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advisory board for the Alexandria Technical College avion*
ics program, and he has been selected to serve on many of
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the major avionics manufacturer dealer advisory boards. He
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also has served as a member of the board of directors for the
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Greater St. Louis Business Aircraft Association.

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Jeanne Meade

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Mike Minchow

Michael Kus, the founder and director of Avionics
2000 Pty. Ltd., based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,
was elected by the board to serve as its new vice chairman. Since founding his company in 1988, it has grown
and diversified to its present-day status as a full-service
provider, including avionics, aircraft operation and
airframe engine. This expansion has elevated Avionics
2000 to what is now, arguably, the largest privatelyowned avionics equipment retailer and maintenance
provider for general aviation aircraft in Australia. Kus
is proud to have pioneered his company as the first in
Australia to fit and certify TCAS in a business aviation environment (September 1999), and the first to
obtain aircraft certification for primary means oceanic
navigation using GPS (November 1999). During the
recent AEA International Convention & Trade Show,
Kus was voted by his peers as the 2014 AEA Member
of the Year.
In addition, Jim Joubert, founder of Pacific
Southwest Instruments in Corona, Calif., was elected
by the board to serve as treasurer. In March 1982,
Joubert founded the company, which has now grown
into a worldwide provider of aircraft instruments and
repair services. As newly elected treasurer, Joubert will
serve as chairman of the AEA Finance Committee.
Joubert was named the 2012 AEA Member of the Year.
The following members also were elected to serve
on the board of directors for a three-year term from
April 2014 to April 2017.
Rick Garcia, Gulf Coast Avionics
Jeanne Meade, Velocity Aerospace
Mike Minchow, Duncan Aviation
Rick Ochs, Spirit Aeronautics
David Salvador, Aircell q

Rick Ochs

David Salvador

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