The International Business Aviation Council (IBAC) joins the\nglobal business aviation community in grieving for the loss of David C. Bell.\nThe former Chief Executive Officer for the Australia Business Aviation\nAssociation for nearly 20 years, David spent a lifetime in aviation and touched\nmany lives with his kindness, sense of humor, and knowledge of the\nindustry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kurt Edwards, Director General, IBAC, said,\u201d David\u2019s passion\nfor the industry was immense and he brought all his international experience\nand insight to his highly effective advocacy for business aviation in\nAustralia. We were fortunate to have his contributions to IBAC\u2019s work for many\nyears. He was truly a business aviation statesman and will be missed by all of\nus.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
David\u2019s career began in the 1960s as a cadet with Hawker de\nHavilland. His international travels with his wife, Lynne, were extensive. They\nalso lived in Wichita, Kansas, while he was working for Beech where they forged\na close friendship with Olive Beech. He was also the aviation marketing\ndirector for Hawker Pacific and served on the board. Before retiring in 2021,\nhe led the Australia Business Aviation Association (ABAA), which has been an\nIBAC member association for decades. In\n2017, David was awarded the Medal of Order of Australia (OAM) in recognition\nfor his service to aviation. The distinguished medal honors Australian citizens\nfor outstanding achievement and service. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The International Business Aviation Council (IBAC) joins the global business aviation community in grieving for the loss of David C. Bell. The former Chief Executive Officer for the Australia Business Aviation Association for nearly 20 years, David spent a lifetime in aviation and touched many lives with his kindness, sense of humor, and knowledge of […]<\/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":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25218","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=25218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25219,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25218\/revisions\/25219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}