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.
Parts manufacturing and distribution specialist Wencor Group expanded its repair capabilities, purchasing Part 145 repair stations Absolute Aviation Services and Soundair Aviation Services, Wencor reports. Absolute, which also holds a European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certificate, specializes in electronics and avionics. Soundair, which also has EASA and Civil Aviation Administration of China approvals, focuses on aircraft interior parts, ranging from cockpit lighting to ovens. Like Wencor, Soundair also develops PMA parts.
A J Walter Aviation has signed a purchase agreement to buy Aveos’s former component maintenance business and plans to establish the insolvent Canadian company’s Montreal facility as its new component maintenance, repair and overhaul headquarters.
The European Commission’s (EC) aviation occurrence data collection and analysis effort is growing in both size and capability, with more occurrences being entered into the system and more meaningful reports being produced as a result. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) provides an update on the project, known as the European Central Repository for occurrences (ECR), in its just-released 2011 Annual Safety Review. The database now includes some 625,000 occurrences after gaining slightly more than 200,000 in 2011, up from 140,000 added in 2010.
