Craig Fuller, president and CEO of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, said he will retire from the pilot organization later this year.
Fuller, 62, plans to stay in the position while the Board of Trustees conducts a national search for a new president and a replacement is named, AOPA said.
Fuller took office in January 2009.
“Craig has been a highly effective champion for the general aviation community, in large part because he has been a cohesive figure with a big-picture perspective,” said Ed Bolen, National Business Aviation Association president and CEO, in a statement. “He has always understood that by working together and leveraging our strengths, a group as large and diverse as the (general aviation) community can accomplish great things.”
PKM Steel Service is investing $250,000 in an expansion that will create 20 additional full-time jobs in Salina.
PKM Steel produces heavy and intermediate structural steel for industrial and commercial building.
The expansion is the result of PKM gaining a major new customer, according to the announcement made by the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce and the Kansas Department of Commerce.
It will allow the company to continue improvements in research development, testing, fabricating, design and painting, the company said in a statement.
“It’s a success story here in Salina,” PKM chief operating officer Mark Hamade said. “We have hiring going on. We have new jobs…. We are convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day we are not just betting on strategies, we are betting on people from the community and the city of Salina.”
The news is good for Salina, said Salina Area Chamber of Commerce president Dave Lauver in the statement. “These are quality jobs that communities throughout the region are competing for.”
