Gregory Polek has spent his entire career in aviation journalism with AIN, starting as a proofreader and assistant to then-managing editor Mary Mahoney in 1995 after serving an internship with&nbsp;New Jersey Monthly&nbsp;magazine and completing his B.A. degree in English/Writing at New Jersey’s William Paterson College. By 1997 Polek accepted a position as an associate editor, covering the regional airline beat for&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;in place of retiring industry veteran Don Anderson. The assignment took Polek across North America and Europe to profile regional airlines varying in size and mission from the likes of floatplane operators Kenmore Air and Chalk’s Ocean Airways to regional jet operators such as SkyWest and American Eagle. Today, in his dual role as Air Transport Editor and International Airshow Editor, Polek writes, edits, and manages AIN’s commercial aviation content while overseeing each of the company’s daily international air show publications in Paris, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai. Most recently Polek has assumed oversight of daily coverage of the Helicopter Association International’s annual Heli-Expo convention.

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The company at the center of a continuing probe into the January crash of an Air Midwest Beech 1900 in Charlotte, N.C., will stop performing maintenance for the regional airline on November 16. Vertex Aerospace, until June known as Raytheon Aerospace, cited a desire to concentrate on its “core” defense business as the reason for its decision, contradicting reports that the split resulted from Air Midwest’s attempts to blame Vertex employees for the January 8 crash. (In June 2001 Raytheon Co. sold 73.5 percent of Raytheon Aerospace to Veritas Capital. The divestiture agreement allowed Veritas to use the Raytheon name for a period of two years, ending in June.) A Vertex spokesman said the company would continue to supply spare parts to Air Midwest, and characterized the decision’s effect on its finances and employees as “negligible.” The NTSB expects to conclude its investigation into the crash, which killed all 21 occupants, by the end of the year.

Vertex To Cease Beech 1900 Maintenance

The company at the center of a continuing probe into the January crash of an Air Midwest Beech 1900 in Charlotte, N.C., will stop performing maintenance fo

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