Spears to lead AE’s Columbus facility

Long-time Sikorsky Aircraft executive Mike Spears has been named senior director of Columbus, Miss.-based American Eurocopter’s Lakota helicopter production facility. AE builds Lakota helicopters for Army and National Guard aviation units. It delivered its 250th helo in April. Spears succeeds Fred Gerard, who took a post with Airbus at its under-construction aircraft assembly facility in Mobile, Ala. Source: The Associated Press, May 4, 2013