Avionics News April 2013 - 87

2013 AEA Member of the Year,
AEA Associate Member of the Year

Convention and hosting radar system
training classes. Currently, Dimon is
the sales and logistics manager for
Texas GYRO, which specializes in
aircraft weather radar and aircraft
flightline avionics services.

David Loso

Jet Aviation St. Louis
David Loso has been in business
aviation for 33 years. He began his
career with Cessna at the Wichita
Citation Service Center as an avionics technician. Loso also has served
in positions with Rockwell Collins in
Wichita, Kan., and Garrett Aviation
in Houston for almost
18 years.
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 with Jet Aviation in
West Palm Beach and now with Jet
Aviation St. Louis as a result of the
merger of Midcoast Aviation with Jet
Aviation.
Loso has served on the advisory
board for the Alexandria Technical
College avionics program, the school
he graduated from, and has been
selected to serve on many of the
major avionics manufacturer advisory
boards. He served as a member of the

board of directors for the Greater St.
Louis Business Aircraft Association
for four years, having volunteered
to fill the remaining term of a board
member who was unable to complete
their term. Loso began serving on the
AEA board of directors in April 2009.

Kent McIntyre

Bevan-Rabell
Kent McIntyre of Bevan-Rabell
Inc. often rode with his uncle, a
World War II pilot, in the 1970s. He
began taking lessons in the summer
of 1976, and it wasn’t long until he
was working in the shop and pumping gas at the airport in Wellington,
Kan.
McIntyre began
college in 1976, and
earned a bachelor’s
degree in business in
1983. He was out of
aviation off and on for
a couple of years, then worked for
Mike Kelley Aircraft, now AirPlains
Services, for several years. He began
working for Bevan-Rabell Inc. in
1989, as the shop manager with virtually no avionics experience except
flying. He worked as an avionics and
sales manager until 2001, and bought
the business from Bob Patterson.
Bevan Radio was started in 1954
by Ralph Bevan. He also began
Rabell Electronics, partly as a warranty repair shop for ARC. The company was and is known for ship in/

ship out repairs for a great number
of shops across the country. In the
late 1960s, the two were merged as
Bevan-Rabell Inc. in the same building. Patterson bought the business
from Bevan and managed it until
McIntyre purchased it in 2001.
Bevan-Rabell Inc. has been a
member of the AEA since September
1986. The first time McIntyre attended an AEA International Convention,
he was elected to the board of directors. Many of the board members he

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served with remain close friends and
business associates today.
One of the things that always
impressed McIntyre with the AEA
members is their willingness to help
each other with advice or in a pinch,
where it isn’t uncommon to call a
competitor and trade equipment or
information. Although McIntyre
never seems to have as much spare
time as he’d like, he enjoys fishing,
hunting and tinkering with a 1955
Pontiac and a 1928 Model A Ford.
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