Bill Beard has been named manager of Air Evac Aviation (AEA) operation at Cape Girardeau.
Beard replaced Col. Wayne Anders, who resigned as AEA manager, to return to flying a Lear Jet.
Other new appointments at the local office AEA, which provides a helicopter ambulance service to the Cape Girardeau area, include Roy Sale, maintenance and service manger for AEA fixed wing and helicopter maintenance; Victoria Moses, office manager; Mike Proffer, new line manager; and Vicki Gray Winchester in the accounts receivable position.
Air Evac EMS, Inc. was incorporated in West Plains, Mo., in June 1985 and began operations at Ozarks Medical Center. Air Evac now has bases in six states and is licensed as an air ambulance provider in Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Illinois, Kentucky and Iowa.
In addition, Air Evac owns and operates an aviation maintenance facility in West Plains and owns and operates the Fixed Base Operation (FBO) in Cape Girardeau.
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