Indianapolis, Indiana-based Comlux Completion (Booth N5823), the purpose-built completion and refurbishment facility of Switzerland’s Comlux Group, is adding two key managers to its team: Fernando Mas as now chief technology officer and Adam Weiss as chief of engineering, the company announced at NBAA-BACE 2019.
Mas formerly served as a senior expert in Virtual Product Engineering and Advanced Digital Design and Manufacturing at Airbus and has held professorships at engineering universities and research positions on scientific committees. Wright, who came from BBJ completion specialist Greenpoint Technologies, has also held engineering positions at manufacturers Gulfstream, Hawker Beechcraft, and Bombardier.
“Adam and Fernando are powerful additions to our management team to support our growth,” said Comlux Completion CEO Daron Dryer, adding, “With our growing order book of state of the art and modern VIP cabins, our shareholders continue investing on future technologies.”
Meanwhile, hiring continues. “The company is now recruiting,” Comlux Group founder and chairman Richard Gaona told AIN.
Comlux, which performed the completion on the ACJ319 that Airbus Corporate Jets (Booth N5216; Static SD1110) has on static display in Las Vegas. arrives at NBAA on the heels of September’s announcement it will undertake its fourth ACJ320 Neo completion, for an undisclosed customer. The world’s first ACJ Neo arrived at Comlux Completion in March, and its second order is slated to arrive in November. Comlux Group purchased the four ACJ320 Neos for its own account but has since sold them all, one purchased by German charter operator Daimler Chrysler Aviation. Comlux Aviation, the group’s VIP airliner management company, will operate one of the four Neos for its owner.
Comlux Completion also recently redelivered and ACJ318 for its Japanese owner and is near finishing the interior of the world’s first BBJ Max 8, inducted at the facility last December. But the grounding of the Boeing Max fleet has thrown a wrench in the project. “If we cannot fly, it slows down the process,” Gaona said of the completion. “But we are very close to the end.”
