Try as he might, Mark Dziuban couldn’t help but end up a printer. “Both my grandfathers owned small print shops, and my father was a printer,” he says. “I did everything in my power to stay out of printing, but it was in my blood.” In the early Eighties, when the economy was down, Dziuban’s father got him a job –– at a print shop, of course. The ink worked its way under Dziuban’s skin. Permanently. He stayed in the business, and in 1994 he and a partner founded American Litho to focus on direct mail and specialty catalog publishing. The company now employs 500 people, and continues to grow. Printing is not the only passion that flows through Dziuban’s…

Ken Molczan is the humblest of men, so when he was asked to appear front and center at the microphone following the Twin Commander University dinner last April, you knew it would be for something special. And indeed it was. With Molczan at his side, Kevin McCullough, president and CEO of Aero Air, which has been an authorized Twin Commander Service Center since the mid-1950s, narrated a slide show tracing the history of a talented and accomplished technician who first started working with Aero Air nearly 45 years ago –– Ken Molczan. Complied by Aero Air staff from photos taken over many years by many people, the slide show chronicled Molczan’s early days as a mechanic; the Experimental aircraft he…

A Commander 1000 fitted with a Garmin 1000 panel and S-TEC IntelliFlight 2100 Digital Flight Control System has completed more than 25 hours of test flying, and is in the final stages of development. The Garmin 1000 Commander will be on display at the Twin Commander University April 25-27 in Scottsdale, Arizona. The Garmin 1000-equipped Commander was unveiled at the NBAA Annual Meeting & Convention in Orlando last fall by Eagle Creek Aviation Services. Eagle Creek refurbished the 1000 and engineered the installation of the Garmin 1000 and IntelliFlight 2100 DFCS package, and is spearheading development and certification of the conversion. Eagle Creek is partnering with Twin Commander Aircraft to market the conversion for turboprop Twin Commander models from the…

Eagle Creek Aviation Services, a factory-authorized Twin Commander Service Center, has begun flight-testing a Garmin 1000-equipped Twin Commander with Garmin’s latest software release. Eagle Creek is seeking supplemental type certificate (STC) approval to upgrade turboprop Twin Commanders with the Garmin 1000 panel and the S-Tec 2100 Digital Flight Control System. The STC also will include Garmin’s new GRA-5500 Radar Altimeter, GTS-850 Traffic system, GWX-70 Weather Radar, and an emergency standby instrument. The prototype installation is on a refurbished Commander 1000 owned by Eagle Creek. The Garmin 1000 Commander was first shown at the NBAA Annual Meeting and Convention last October in Orlando. It will be on display at the Twin Commander University April 25-27 at the Scottsdale, Arizona, Airport, and at…