Sean Broderick covers aviation safety, MRO, and the hardware side of the airline business from Aviation Week Network's Washington, D.C. office.
Broderick's aviation career started in 1991, working for Airbus in Toulouse. His industry experience includes four years with an aviation consultancy, where he helped launch a U.S. Part 121 carrier; 12 years with the American Association of Airport Executives, where he served as editor of Airport Magazine; and 20 years in full- and part-time roles with Aviation Week writing primarily about safety and the aftermarket.
Broderick was named the 2020 Aerospace Journalist of the Year by the Aerospace Media Awards. He also shared in a 2020 Neal Award for Best News Coverage with Aviation Week Network colleagues. Broderick and Aviation Week colleague John Croft shared the 2015 Flight Safety International Cecil A. Brownlow Publication Award recognizing "significant contributions by journalists to aviation safety awareness."
He graduated from James Madison University with a B.S. in Communications ('91) and earned an M.S. in Integrated Marketing Communications ('13) from West Virginia University.
Signature Flight Support’s planned acquisition of Jet Systems, a rival FBO at Westchester County Airport (HPN), White Plains, N.Y., could signal the start of further consolidations at HPN. There’s been speculation among airport tenants about such developments, fueled in part by a proposal before the County Board of Legislators to assign the lease for Panorama Flight Service, an independent FBO, to Landmark Aviation, which, like Signature, already has a base at HPN. That would leave Westair, a Million Air branded operation, as the third remaining operation.
Putting its Oklahoma operations on the market could be the first major step in Spirit AeroSystems’ effort to re-focus resources on what it does best: playing major roles in maturing, growing Boeing and Airbus airliner programs. Spirit executives last week announced that the company’s Tulsa manufacturing operation is for sale, along with its McAlester, Okla., facility, which provides machined parts and subassemblies.
Dallas-based used engine parts specialist Turbine Engine Resources (TER) is adding the Pratt & Whitney PW4000 to its portfolio thanks to the largest purchase in its history—a former Fiji Airways Boeing 747-400. Parts from the plane’s PW4056 engines are expected to hit the market in about 60 days, TER Vice President-Sales Ron Habermas tells Aviation Week. One of the four engines “is likely” to be sold intact as a spare, he adds.
