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Business Aviation Veterans Acquire Kansas Aircraft Corporation<br />
(L/R) Dianne White, President, and Tim White, CEO – owners of Kansas<br />
Aircraft Corporation with company founder, Michele Stauffer.<br />
NEW CENTURY, KAN. – Business aviation veterans<br />
Tim and Dianne White have acquired Kansas Aircraft<br />
Corporation, an aviation sales and consulting firm<br />
headquartered at the New Century Air Center (IXD) in the<br />
Kansas City area. Kansas Aircraft Corporation was founded<br />
in 1990 by Michele Stauffer, who will remain active in the<br />
business following the acquisition.<br />
With the new ownership, the company will continue to<br />
focus on new Cessna single-engine, high-end piston, heavy<br />
twin, and turboprop aircraft sales. In addition, it will offer the<br />
expertise, insight and market knowledge for owner-pilots and<br />
operators of business jets.<br />
Kansas Aircraft Corporation sales and support staff will<br />
continue under the new ownership, making the transition<br />
virtually invisible to customers. Michele Stauffer, as well<br />
as long-time sales executives Amy Heaven, Conrad Jones,<br />
Terry Blake and Steve Wilson, will continue to provide sales<br />
expertise and counsel. The company will remain at the New<br />
Century Air Center (IXD) in the Kansas City area.<br />
Tim White comes to Kansas Aircraft Corporation with<br />
OEM knowledge and perspective after a successful sales<br />
leadership career at Cessna Aircraft. He most recently served<br />
as Sr. Vice President, Sales for the Americas. As an officer and<br />
senior leader of the company, he oversaw the sales of Citation,<br />
Caravan and single-engine aircraft for North, Central and<br />
South America. In 2012, Tim White joined Bombardier<br />
Aerospace in a sales leadership role for the Global, Challenger<br />
and Learjet product lines, providing him experience in the<br />
heavy jet market sector. He is a multi-engine, instrumentrated<br />
pilot, and holds a Citation 525 type rating.<br />
Dianne White brings a wealth of general aviation<br />
knowledge and experience following a 14-year career as<br />
Editor in Chief of Twin & Turbine <strong>Magazine</strong>, the first and<br />
only monthly publication devoted to the owner-pilots of<br />
heavy twins and turbine aircraft. In addition, she held editor<br />
roles at a number of other aviation magazines, including<br />
CJ <strong>Magazine</strong>, Cirrus Pilot, King Air <strong>Magazine</strong>, and the<br />
International Comanche Society. She also served as Vice<br />
President of Corporate Communications at Cessna Aircraft<br />
Company. Dianne White is a multi-engine, instrument-rated<br />
pilot (www.kansasaircraft.com).<br />
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Pelton Named To IMC Board<br />
NORWOOD, MASS. – The IMC<br />
Club has named Jack Pelton, former<br />
CEO of Cessna Aircraft Company,<br />
and the current Chairman of the<br />
Experimental Aircraft Association,<br />
to its board of directors. This<br />
appointment follows the addition of flight school owner and<br />
air show performer, Mike Goulian, and Joe Brown, President<br />
of Hartzel Propellers, to its board.<br />
IMC Club, through its nationwide chapters, provides<br />
organized “hangar flying” focused on building proficiency in<br />
instrument flying (http://www.imcclubs.org/).<br />
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