{"id":33092,"date":"2025-10-18T15:13:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=33092"},"modified":"2025-10-18T15:13:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:13:38","slug":"nbaa-board-taps-witzig-for-second-term-as-chair-names-byrd-new-vice-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/national-news\/nbaa-board-taps-witzig-for-second-term-as-chair-names-byrd-new-vice-chair\/%20","title":{"rendered":"NBAA Board Taps Witzig for Second Term as Chair, Names Byrd New Vice Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The voting members of the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) have reelected two individuals to the association\u2019s board of directors during an annual meeting held during NBAA\u2019s Business Aviation Convention &amp; Exhibition (NBAA-BACE).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/John-Witzig-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33094\" style=\"width:142px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>John Witzig<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the board of directors announced that John Witzig, of Pfizer, will serve a second term as board chair, and Matt Byrd, of Hillwood Aviation, will serve as NBAA\u2019s new vice chair\/treasurer.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Matt-Byrd.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33095\" style=\"width:145px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Matt Byrd<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Leadership on NBAA\u2019s Advisory Council also changed today, with Bill Dolny, of MedAire, replacing Tyson Weihs, co-founder of ForeFlight and currently with Makana Holdings Management LLC, as chair. Lannie O\u2019Bannion, of Textron Aviation, will serve as first vice chair and Joe Barber of Clay Lacy Aviation will serve as second vice chair. As leaders of the Advisory Council, Dolny, O\u2019Bannion and Barber will serve as the Business Member Advisors on the board of directors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Re-elected to three-year terms on the board of directors today were Daniel Baker, founder of FlightAware and currently with BakerVentures, and Tyson Weihs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The board of directors also announced that Ron Duncan, Monte Koch and Lloyd \u201cFig\u201d Newton will each serve an additional one-year term as chair emeritus, where they will provide mentorship and guidance to directors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The voting members of the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) have reelected two individuals to the association\u2019s board of directors during an annual meeting held during NBAA\u2019s Business Aviation Convention &amp; Exhibition (NBAA-BACE). Additionally, the board of directors announced that John Witzig, of Pfizer, will serve a second term as board chair, and Matt Byrd, [&hellip;]<\/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":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33092","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=33092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33096,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33092\/revisions\/33096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}