Gulfstream Aerospace is opening a new sales and design center in Long Beach, Calif. The facility will support West Coast customers with the selection of cabin interior and paint options for their aircraft. The manufacturer’s 325,000-sq-ft Long Beach center has been open since 1986 and includes a completions center for the G550 and G650 models, as well as a service center for all Gulfstream models.
At a press conference on the eve of the 2014 NBAA show in Orlando, Gulfstream also announced the appointment of Cindy Halsey as vice president for completion planning and design. Her core responsibility is to ensure that customers have a “world-class completion experience” and to achieve this she will coordinate the efforts of Gulfstream colleagues involved in new aircraft sales, contracts, marketing, engineering, initial/final-phase operations and product support. Halsey formerly held a similar role at Cessna Aircraft.
In other personnel news, Gulfstream has appointed Brian Jones as regional vice president for international sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Jones has been in the business aviation industry for 17 years and joins the manufacturer from aircraft broker Volare Aviation, where he was CEO.
Meanwhile, Grant Kennedy has been named as Gulfstream’s new sales director for northeast U.S. and eastern Canada. The company also has appointed Matthew Sandidge as regional vice president of sales for Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
