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Airbus
BOSTON HARTFORD NEW HAVEN STAMFORD WOBURN
MURTHA CULLINA LLP
ATTORNEYS AT LAW MURTHALAW.COM
EXPANDING OUR TEAM
MURTHA ANNOUNCES SEVEN NEW ATTORNEYS
BRUCE L. MCDERMOTT
PARTNER
Energy & Environmental Law
Hartford & New Haven
bmcdermott@muthalaw.com
860.240.6180
Bruce strengthens the Firm's
Energy, Water & Environmental Practice Groups given
his comprehensive practice in energy, public utility,
environmental and infrastructure law, including
litigation, transactional and regulatory representation
and counseling.
DANIEL J. KAGAN
Health Care
dkagan@murthalaw.com
New Haven
SPENCER A. STONE
Real Estate
sstone@murthalaw.com
Hartford
EMILY G. BROWN
Employee Benefits
ebrown@murthalaw.com
Boston
SARAH M. GRUBER
Litigation
sgruber@murthalaw.com
Hartford
NEW ASSOCIATES
RYAN M. SUERTH
PARTNER
Insurance Recovery Litigation,
Hartford
rsuerth@murthalaw.com
860.240.6157
Ryan adds depth to the Firm's
Insurance Recovery Practice Group given his extensive
experience enforcing the rights of large business policy
holders.
PROLOY K. DAS
COUNSEL
Appellate,
Hartford
pdas@murthalaw.com
860.240.6076
Proloy leads our team of
seasoned appellate attorneys as the new Chair of
the Firm's Appellate Practice Group. His leadership
experience and his skills as a sophisticated appellate
practitioner further strengthen the Firm's reputation for
high quality appellate representation.
PARTNERS & COUNSEL
components, he said, "are very, very good. We
don't deal with suppliers who are not good.''
When Airbus goes in search of new suppli-
ers, it's concerned with finding ones who are
competitively priced with the products and
services it needs, Eccleston said.
"That's all we worry about,'' he said.
There is opportunity, Eccleston said, for
more Connecticut firms to supply Airbus with
products, but it likely would be as a supplier of
subsystems or parts vendor to a major Airbus
supplier such as Pratt or Kaman. Starting in
1975, Pratt supplied engines for Airbus' first
commercial airliner, the A300, he said.
Today, Airbus also buys jet-engine covers,
or "nacelles,'' from UTAS and auxiliary power
systems from Pratt Canada. More impor-
tantly, Airbus selected Pratt's PurePower
geared turbofan engine for its A320neo air-
craft, which gave the East Hartford jet engine
maker an opportunity to get back into the
narrowbody business.
"Together, Pratt and Airbus really
changed the aviation business because [Air-
bus] became a real competitor to Boeing,''
Eccleston said.
Greg Gernhardt, president, Pratt & Whitney
Commercial Engines, said "Airbus has been a
great partner and customer in the process."
Airbus will join other major aerospace
and defense suppliers in Groton in Novem-
ber, for a networking session between them
and smaller suppliers from Connecticut and
other Northeast states, said Eccleston and
Anne Evans, district director for the federal
Commerce Department's International Trade
Administration in Middletown.
An engineer, Eccleston, 68, is no stranger
to Connecticut.
He arrived in 1984 and stayed through
1989, as sales vice president for former Inter-
national Aerospace Engines, the then newly
formed jet-engine consortium involving
Pratt, British jet-engine builder Rolls Royce
PLC and two Japanese and German engine
makers. Eccleston was on the team that
marketed IAE's V2500 jet engine to Airbus
for what later became its "bread-and-butter''
workhorse, the A320.
While at East Hartford-based IAE, Eccleston
resided in Glastonbury, he said. He took les-
sons and obtained his private pilot's license at
Hartford's Brainard Airport.
In 1994, he returned to IAE, this time as
president. He remained until 1998. After sev-
eral other corporate stops, including with
aerosystems maker Honeywell, he landed at
Airbus Americas as president in 2005.
Eccleston said he was looking forward,
following his Connecticut visit and keynote,
to returning to Airbus America's base in Hern-
don, Va., and taking the controls of a Cessna
T-172 that he occasionally rents to soar above
Maryland's and Virginia's eastern shore.
"I find [piloting] a great way to decom-
press,'' he said. n
More than five dozen Connecticut aero-suppliers provide engines, auxiliary power systems and other parts and sub-
systems for Airbus jets.
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