Tue, Dec 07, 2010
Will Deliver Post NBAA Report And Industry Update December
9
Following an up-beat NBAA convention held in October in
Atlanta, Piper Executive Vice President Randy Groom (pictured,
right) will be the featured guest speaker at the regular
bi-monthly meeting of the Atlanta Aero Club December 9.
Groom joined Piper Aircraft in June, 2010 as Executive Vice
President, after serving as founder and president of Groom
Aviation. His extensive aviation experience includes senior
executive positions with Hawker Beechcraft Corp. (formerly Raytheon
Aircraft Company), where he held positions of increasing
responsibility, including President of Global Customer Service and
Support and President of Beechcraft.
Groom also held several senior sales and executive positions
with Piedmont Hawthorne Aviation, Inc. culminating in his
appointment as Senior Vice President after serving as Vice
President of Aircraft Sales and in other management positions for
Piedmont Hawthorne Aviation/Piedmont Aviation Services.
A graduate of Oklahoma State University with a B.S. and M.B.A.
in Marketing, Groom is an instrument-rated commercial pilot and has
logged more than 10,000 accident-free hours in his 40 years of
flying - 18 of those years as an aircraft owner. Groom worked his
way through university as a flight instructor and charter pilot and
was one of the youngest flight instructors for the U.S. Air Force
at age 19
The meeting is scheduled for 1200 on December 9th in the Grand
Ballroom of the Capital City Club in downtown Atlanta.
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