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At the 2013 AEA International Convention & Trade Show in Las Vegas, AEA President Paula Derks asked member companies
the question: What's working for you? Derks challenged AEA members to share their success stories, best practices and
ideas that are working for their respective companies. This article is part of a series that highlights how AEA member
companies recognized challenging economic circumstances, and how they responded and overcame them.

What's

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Business initiatives that are elevating companies to success
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Professional Aviation Associates,
a Greenwich AeroGroup
company, opens a new facility

or the most part, avionics is a service industry.
Avionics equipment serves the needs of the
customer by allowing them to navigate, communicate and avoid collisions in a wide variety of flight
conditions. Furthermore, avionics provides entertainment,
business connectivity and more to pilots and the flying
public.
In a larger sense, aviation is a
service industry. It gets people and
cargo from one place to another
in a fast and efficient manner. The
most successful aviation companies
have found innovative ways to serve
aircraft owners, pilots, passengers,
investors and other aviation businesses.
It's a long list for the industry to
accomplish in order to provide excellent and safe service.
One company, Greenwich AeroGroup Inc., has been successful by focusing simultaneously on legacy and sunset
product services, as well as the future needs of customers.
It envisions becoming a leading global provider of comprehensive aircraft services.
Although Berkley Capital LLC founded Greenwich
AeroGroup in 2007, the company history stretches back to
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1957. MK Aviation was founded by Morrison Knudson in
1957, to maintain its fleet of DC-3s supporting the Hoover
Dam project. In the 1980s, MK Aviation became Western
Aircraft. In 1960, Summit Aviation began providing air
freight services and became a repair station in 1966. In
the 1980s, NASAM, DAC International, Matrix Aviation
and Professional Aviation Associates
came about. And in the 1990s, Aero
Precision and Professional Aircraft
Accessories started. Professional Aircraft Accessories provides component
repair and overhaul, and landing gear
services, whereas Professional Aviation Associates is primarily involved
in parts distribution and avionics.
Today, Greenwich AeroGroup owns
and operates providers of general,
commercial, government and military aviation services,
including: maintenance, avionics and interior refurbishments; fixed base operations; aircraft sales, charter and
management; manufacturing; component repair and overhaul; parts distribution; and financial services. According to
Dave Miller, senior vice president of component repair and
overhaul, and parts distribution, Greenwich AeroGroup has
a long history developing customer relationships. The com-

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