The Team
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Bruce Lister Bruce founded SPA in 1990. Prior to that he was the Avionics Manager at Flightline Aviation where he started as an apprentice in 1980. Avionics Experience: 40 Years |
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Ross Osborne Ross joined SPA in 1991 when he needed a break from running his own communications company. He has also worked as Ground Crew on Sikorsky S64 Helicopters. Avionics Experience: 30 Years |
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Marc Wesseling Marc served his avionics aprenticeship with Bruce at Motor Holdings (Now Flightline) in the 1980s. He had a break from Avionics for a few years but is back now and has brought with him a wealth of experience from outside aviation.
Avionics Experience: 20 Years |
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Steve Rowe Steve started as a trainee in 2008. He is now a very competent engineer capable of repairing most avionics equipment.
Avionics Experience: 12 Years |
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Sandor Forian
Avionics Engineer Sandor has worked for SPA since the mid 90's. In his homeland of Hungary he was responsible for the maintenance of a large RADAR system, this experience has given him a unique approach to problem solving that usually pays off. Despite being a little hard to understand when he gets excited, he is a master on avionics repair and there isn't much he can't fix.
Component Repair Experience: 50 Years |
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Vanessa Natera
Vanessa Joined SPA in 2022 as an avionics engineer. She started her maintenance career in PNG and relocated to NZ in 2018 where she quickly proved her value in the helicopter customisation and component workshops of one of our competitors. Their loss was our gain.
Avionics Experience 9 years.
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Ken McSkimming
Ken Joined SPA in 2022 as an avionics engineer. He has brought with him, neary 40 years of experience in avionics maintenance and helicopter customisation.
Avionics Experience 38 years.
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Bow Osborne
Bow joined SPA in 2011. She takes care of accounts payable and receivable
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Nicola Johannesen Nicola joined SPA in 2021. She has a teenage family and enjoys spending time with her kids. |
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Waikato/BOP
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Evan Harris
Evan is an aircraft engineer and an aviation enthusiast. He own's his own aircraft and holds a multitude of rating in both avionics and mechanical trades. When he's not fixing or flying aircraft, he's mucking about in the bush or climbing mountains. (obviously we need to work him harder)
Avionics Experience 20+ years.
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Nelson
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| We are currnetly servicing the Nelson area using subcontract engineers. If you are a licensed engineer and want to be a full time part of our team and want to live in this part of NZ, please get in touch. |
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Dunedin
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Lloyd Gallacher
Lloyd Gallacher has been in the Avionics business since 1988 and has held many manager positions at some of South Africa’s major avionic companies and also owned his own Avionics company and did work as far as Kenya. Lloyd also holds three NZQA Level 6 Certificates for Aeronautical maintenance Engineering Radio, Electrical and Instruments. Lloyd has a vast amount of experience on a wide range of rotary wing and fixed wing aircraft.
Avionics Experience 30 + years.
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Ben Blackman
Ben joined SPA in 2022 after completing the NMIT Aviation Diploma. He's a fast learner and is not afraid to ask questions. We think he will go a long way in this industry.
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