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\u201cGary continues the tradition of innovation and excellence\nestablished by Joe,\u201d says Kyle Washington, a member of the board of directors\nof various Washington Companies, including Aviation Partners. His father,\nDennis Washington, and Joe Clark founded Aviation Partners in 1991. \u201cGary\u2019s\nstrategic thinking and quiet leadership have earned the trust of our clients, our\nboard and the aviation industry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dunn has close to 30 years\u2019 experience in aviation\nmaintenance, engineering, product support, sales and marketing. A childhood\nfascination with all things flight related led Dunn to study aeronautical\nengineering. During an apprenticeship at London Luton Airport-based Monarch\nAircraft Engineering, Ltd., he provided MRO support to a mixed fleet of Boeing\nand Airbus aircraft. A move to Seattle in his early 20s led to being hired in\n1996 by Aviation Partners\u2019 director of engineering. He joined Clark\u2019s dream\nteam of mostly former, senior Boeing engineers. \u201cI joked that by hiring me,\nthey brought the average age down to 65,\u201d says Dunn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dunn supported the Gulfstream II blended winglet program\nwith everything from installations to supply chain management. Clark invited\nDunn to join the sales team in 2001. He later assumed the marketing role, too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As vice president of sales and marketing, Dunn oversaw\nAviation Partners\u2019 blended winglet products for business aircraft plus sales of\nlarge winglet retrofits to corporate and head-of-state buyers of Boeing 737,\n757 and 767 aircraft. This performance-enhancing technology has been outfitted\non approximately 1,000 business aircraft worldwide. Dunn has been responsible\nfor rolling out virtually all new products, including those for Hawker and\nFalcon series aircraft. In his new leadership role, Dunn continues to look for\nways to be the leader in winglet technology and to expand its ability to reduce\nCO2 emissions to even more aircraft models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had the great privilege of working alongside and\nlearning from the industry\u2019s best; it\u2019s a privilege to carry their vision\nforward,\u201d says Dunn. Today\u2019s coronavirus crisis concerns him, but he believes\nanalysts who are predicting that business aviation may ultimately come through\nthis stronger than ever. \u201cI experienced the downturns of 9\/11 and 2008.\nBusiness aviation is a resilient industry, and the world will fly again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Effective immediately, Aviation Partners, Inc., announces Gary Dunn to the position of president. Dunn, age 48, has served the company for more than two decades. He has been interim president since the unexpected passing on March 30 of company founder and aviation legend Joe Clark. \u201cGary continues the tradition of innovation and excellence established by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-washington"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15447,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15445\/revisions\/15447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}