May, 2007

Safe Air Appoints Defence Projects Specialist

Safe Air recently appointed Heather Deacon as Strategic Project Manager – Defence.

“This new role within Safe Air forms a key part of our strategy to secure long term aerospace engineering contracts within Australian and New Zealand Defence Forces,” says General Manager Jeremy Remacha.

Heather’s initial focus will be assessing a number of Australian Defence Force opportunities, and building strategic alliances with potential teaming partners.

A Masters Graduate from Cranfield University, Heather was previously a Commercial Manager with Selex (Finnmeccanica) in the UK working on through life support and performance based contracting. She has more than 15 years senior level experience within defence contract support services, having started out as a flight instructor training pilots for the British Armed Services. She then progressed to Program Management and Business Development on numerous defence operational support contracts.

Safe Air, a wholly owned subsidiary of Air New Zealand, is the primary provider of heavy maintenance to the Royal New Zealand Air Force and is a Royal Australian Air Force Approved Maintenance Organisation (AMO). Safe Air meets Commonwealth of Australia procurement requirements under Australian Industry Capability. For more information on Safe Air visit www.safeair.co.nz.

For all media enquiries please contact:

Heather Deacon
General Manager
Safe Air Limited
+64 3 572 8416
info@safeair.co.nz