Grand Rapids Mich. - Charles R. Cox, president of Northern Air Inc., and founder and president of The Company Jet and Northern Jet Management Inc., has been elected to the 10-member board of directors of the National Air Transportation Association (NATA) for a three-year term.
Cox, who has over 25 years of aviation and travel industry experience, was extremely honored to be elected to the NATA. He said of being elected, “The NATA serves a vital role in private aviation and their role is more important today than ever before as the number of private aircraft and hours flown continues to grow. The nation’s business community is turning to private aviation as the only dependable and go-to for meeting their business travel needs.”
Cox’s love of aircraft and private aviation goes back to when he was a boy living in Ionia, Michigan, watching privately owned aircraft fly just above his backyard and land on a nearby grass runway. Cox pursued his boyhood dream of aviation to become a licensed pilot after attending Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, the world's oldest and largest university specializing in aviation and aerospace, and the only accredited, aviation-oriented university in the world.
Background: Since 1946, Northern Air has been a proven leader in private aviation and flight support. Northern Air offers state-of-the-art diagnostics, comprehensive refurbishing capabilities, and over 50 years of aviation parts experience, and is a factory authorized service center for Cessna, Piper, Diamond, Mooney, Textron Lycoming, and Teledyne Continental. Northern Air is the primary FBO at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where they have 75,000 square feet of heated aircraft hangar space, 103 T-hangars, and over 30,000 square feet of headquarter office space. Northern Air also provides much of the airport’s aviation fuel. Contact Northern Air at 1-800-262-4953, www.northernair.net, or via email at [email protected].Background: Founded in 1940, the National Air Transportation Association (NATA) represents the interests of aviation businesses before Congress, federal agencies and state governments. NATA's 2,000 member companies own, operate and service aircraft and provide for the needs of the traveling public by offering services and products to aircraft operators and others, such as fuel sales, aircraft maintenance, parts sales, storage, rental, airline servicing, flight training, Part 135 on-demand air taxi, fractional aircraft program management, and scheduled commuter operations in smaller aircraft. NATA members are a vital link in the aviation industry that provides services to the general public, airlines, general aviation and the military.
