End of an aviation era
Last Friday week was the end of an era on Bankstown Airport. Airtex Aviation, Wingaway and Heron Airlines were all sold to a new owner.
All the business are secure and with the new ownership look forward to growing the business. The new owner has previously owned aviation companies and is well versed in their needs.
No matter what anyone said about Dieter, he provided many people with the opportunity to progress their careers both in flying and engineering. He was one of the few on bankstown that actually took on apprentice engineers each year when the bigger organisations decided not to.
Recently I had the pleasure to actually fly on a Virgin flight where both pilots were ex Airtex crew.
To the remaining employees of Airtex etc good luck.