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Dick Rutan, a pilot, entrepreneur and adventurer, addresses the audience at the 2013 AEA Opening Ceremonies. Rutan made history in December
1986, after completing a nine-day, nonstop and nonrefueled flight around the world that established a flight-endurance record. Rutan’s appearance
and the Opening Ceremonies were sponsored by Universal Avionics Systems Corp.

fixture at Atlantic Aero and active participant in the
association, was named recipient of the 2013 AEA
Lifetime Achievement Award during the convention’s
opening ceremonies. The next day, at the annual
Awards Luncheon, Kent McIntyre of Bevan-Rabell
Inc. was named the 2013 AEA Member of the Year.
Association members picked McIntyre, who has been
actively involved with the AEA for a number of years
and previously served as a member of the AEA board
of directors. Also at the Awards Luncheon, Sandia
Aerospace was named Associate Member of the Year,
winning the honor for the second time.
Finally, the association also elected two new
members of its board of directors, and the board itself
elected a new chairman and vice chairman. Gary
Harpster, a senior avionics sales representative for
Duncan Aviation in Lincoln, Neb, is the AEA’s new
chairman of the board. A long-time AEA member who
has served as vice chairman since 2010, Harpster was
first elected to the AEA board of directors in 2005.
The association’s new vice chairman is David Loso,

manager of avionics sales for Jet Aviation St. Louis.
Loso was first elected to the AEA board of directors
in 2009, and he has been involved in the general and
business aviation industry for 34 years.
Meanwhile, Tom Harper, director of marketing for
Avidyne Corp. in Lincoln, Mass., was elected to the
board for the first time, along with Brian Wilson,
director of avionics for Banyan Air Services in Fort
Lauderdale, Fla. You can read more about each of the
AEA’s newly elected board members on page 12.
Want some more numbers? How about 26,358?
That’s the distance, in statute miles, covered by
keynote speaker Dick Rutan in December 1986 on
one flight. On the convention’s opening day, Rutan
impressed the crowd of aviation-industry executives,
avionics technicians and pilots with his detailed
descriptions of the preparations, engineering and
airmanship necessary for him and Jeana Yeager to
cover that distance. It took nine days, three minutes
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Avionics News June 2013

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Avionics News June 2013

Point of Communication
AEA Now
The View From Washington
International News and Regulatory Updates
Electrical-System Manager
Member Profile
Let's Get to Work!
Advancing Avionics
Startup Stories
Member Profile
The History of Avionics
Avionics News Through the Years
A Conversation With...
Legal Ease
Business Basics
AEAviators
What's New
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Avionics News June 2013 - The View From Washington
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