Podcast: How Might AI Improve Safety in Business Aviation?


March 24, 2025

As the tech world shows rapidly growing interest in developing useful tools that leverage artificial intelligence, discussion in the bizav community often centers around potential applications and safety implications. Listen as three leaders in business aviation maintenance and technology share their insights and predictions about the role AI may play in improving safety across maintenance systems, aircraft tracking and air traffic control in the years and decades to come.

In this episode of NBAA’s “Flight Plan,” host Rob Finfrock speaks with:

  • Leonard Beauchemin, managing director of AeroTechna Solutions
  • Fern Campos, director of maintenance for a Fortune 50 company
  • Todd Giles, vice president of engineering and chief technology officer for Honeywell Aerospace

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