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It’s tough for Jeff Lowe to fly his 1979 Beechcraft King Air C90 past an airport that is home to an aftermarket completion center.
As co-founder and president of Aviation Fabricators – or AvFab – he knows each facility is a customer or prospective customer for the interior parts and components his company designs and produces for general aviation, corporate, special missions and commuter aircraft. That’s why even when his wife is with him on a trip to an industry meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, his flight plan from his home in the western Missouri town of Clinton includes touching down in Waco, Texas; Midland, Texas; and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Jeff (right) and his father G.R. launched their company AvFab in 1988 because they noticed a lot of repair shops didn’t want to get involved with repairing seats and interior components. They later started to develop custom interior seats and components due to customer requests.