Wed, Feb 16, 2011
Speech Will Outline Aircraft Maintenance Over 117 Years
The 26th Annual NBAA Maintenance Management Conference keynote
address will be given this year by renowned aviation historian
Giacinta Bradley Koontz, an award-winning author and expert on
aircraft mechanics history. Koontz will deliver the keynote speech
April 5 in San Diego, highlighting the life stories of the
pioneering men and women who have maintained aircraft from Orville
and Wilbur Wright's first airplane engine to today's modern
aircraft.
"Attendees at this year's MMC Conference are in for a treat, as
Ms. Koontz shares remarkable profiles in leadership among those
responsible for the maintenance of some truly noteworthy aircraft,"
said NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen. "As the conference helps the
aircraft maintenance leaders at NBAA's Member Companies, these
pioneers stand as a true inspiration."
Koontz, a self-described "Aviation Anthropologist", first became
interested in aviation when she came across the life of Harriet
Quimby, America's first licensed female pilot, and went on to
author "The Harriet Quimby Scrapbook, the life of America's first
Birdwoman (1875-1912)."
With a background in historic archaeology and museum curation,
she directed an aviation history conference before becoming
Director of the Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation and
Museum in North Hollywood, CA, where the Wright Brothers' mechanic,
Charles Taylor and other aviation pioneers are buried. In 2002,
Koontz helped write a state resolution establishing Aviation
Maintenance Technician Day in California. Later, she began a column
for Aircraft Maintenance Technology Magazine recounting the untold
stories of aviation mechanics and has since been featured on PBS
and the History Channel. In 2008, she was presented with the
Daughters of the American Revolution History Award Medal.
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