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Dealer gets maintenance training award

Skytech, a dealer for Piper, Pilatus, and the Cessna Caravan in the Baltimore and Charlotte, N.C., areas, is among those winning FAA recognition for recurrent maintenance training in 2009.

Other winners include all eight Cessna Citation Service Centers, Million Air Dallas, Kitty Hawk Air Cargo, Helicopter Support, Embraer, and several airlines. Approximately 20,000 of the awards are issued each year.

Skytech has won the award, known as the Diamond Award, continuously since 2006. This latest award is for 2009. The awards are issued yearly based on training received in a calendar year, and are based on 100 percent employee participation.

Skytech has offices at Martin State Airport in Baltimore, and FBOs at Rock Hill York County Airport in Rock Hill, S.C., and at Carroll County Regional Airport in Westminster, Md.

Alton Marsh
Alton K. Marsh
Freelance journalist
Alton K. Marsh is a former senior editor of AOPA Pilot and is now a freelance journalist specializing in aviation topics.

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