{"id":775,"date":"2012-02-05T04:27:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T04:27:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-05T04:27:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T04:27:31","slug":"kansas-aviation-director-named-secretary-nasao-special-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/news\/kansas-aviation-director-named-secretary-nasao-special-election\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Aviation Director Named Secretary in NASAO Special Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Ed Young, director of the Kansas Division of Aviation has been elected Secretary of the National Association of State Aviation<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"224\" height=\"155\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/\\wp-content\\uploads\/Session 6edit.jpg\" \/> Officials (NASAO) in a special election held recently. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Young, who has been the Kansas director since 2005, has been active in the association chairing the NASAO Land Use and Communication Committees. &quot;NASAO plays a vital role in the preservation and advancement of our National aviation system,&quot; said Young. &quot;I just hope that I can help effectuate a positive and innovative approach while on the Board.&quot; &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The special election was held in accordance with NASAO by-laws after former chairman Joe Pestka (Missouri) left state government to open an office in Missouri for Jviation, Inc., an aviation engineering, planning and construction firm. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Replacing Pestka as Chairman is Debbie Alke, Administrator for the Montana Department of Transportation, Aeronautics Division.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Young (Shown above speaking at a NASAO forum in Nashville) is a CFI and commercial pilot as well as an attorney.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"field_attachment\">\n<div><b>Attachment:<\/b><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"\/\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Ed Young, director of the Kansas Division of Aviation has been elected Secretary of the National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO) in a special election held recently. &nbsp; Young, who has been the Kansas director since 2005, has been active in the association chairing the NASAO Land Use and Communication Committees. &quot;NASAO plays a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kansas","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\\wp-content\\uploads\/Session 6edit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","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=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}