Boeing estimates the aircraft services aftermarket will be worth $2.3 trillion over the next 20 years.

Warren Persavich has been appointed president and CEO of Wichita-based NASAM, succeeding Aki Sato. Persavich was senior VP-parts distribution of Greenwich AeroGroup.

USAF Lt. Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, commander of the Space and Missile Systems Center of Air Force Space Command, has been selected by the Society of Satellite Professionals International of New York, to receive its Stellar Award for Government Service. Pawlikowski is being honored for introducing new satellite communications technologies and exploring ways to acquire space systems.

Ellen Tauscher has been named vice chair-designate of the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, which will be inaugurated later this year, by the Atlantic Council of Washington. She was U.S. undersecretary of state for arms control and international security. HONORS AND ELECTIONS

Competitive landscape shifts between Mitsubishi MRJ and Embraer E-Jets.

Any remaining doubts over whether the recovery in the civil helicopter market is for real were dispelled in a whirl of record orders, new product announcements and building backlogs at this year's Heli-Expo. As if to underscore the rising tide of optimism, the show itself was busy, with attendance topping 19,200, eclipsing 2008's record of almost 18,000. More than 650 exhibitors covered nearly 1 million sq. ft. of floor space; manufacturers brought in 60 helicopters for the show.

Jamco's costs are mainly in yen and its sales contracts are mainly in dollars. With the yen now 60% higher than it was five years ago, that hurts. The root of the problem is the same Western economic weakness that is hurting defense manufacturers. Transmitted through low U.S. and European interest rates and the risk of the euro zone breaking up, it turns up in Japan as an excrutiatingly high exchange rate. And it affects mainly civil aerospace exporters like Jamco, one of the world's biggest makers of airliner interiors.

Mike Fetcko has joined Elliott Aviation, Moline, Ill., as avionics manager for the Quad Cities team. He was a systems design engineer with Great Lakes Aviation and a private contractor. Randy Davis has been promoted to accessory shop sales manager from sales data administrator.