GAA Live 2025

Adam Boyd

Presenter

Adam Boyd of Cabot, Arkansas was the 2025 National Certificated Flight Instructor of the Year.

Samuel “Beau” Hardison

Presenter

Samuel “Beau” Hardison of Mountain View, Arkansas was the 2025 National Aviation Maintenance Technician of the Year.

Josselyn Slagle

Presenter

Josselyn Slagle of New Castle, Pennsylvania was the 2025 National FAA Safety Team Representative of the Year and is chief flight instructor at New Castle Airport.

Paul New

Host

Paul New has flown and worked on piston-engine airplanes since grade school. After earning a degree in Aircraft Electronics, he started and managed two avionics shops. In 1986, he and his wife, Helen, took over the family business his father began in 1974, Tennessee Aircraft Services, Inc in Jackson, TN. It is now a Cirrus and Textron factory-authorized service center. The shop performs routine scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and specializes in structural repairs for metal and composite airframes. Paul is an FAA certificated Airframe and Powerplant mechanic with Inspection Authorization. In addition, he’s a private pilot with instrument and multi-engine ratings. He enjoys flying his 2002 Cirrus G1 for personal and business use. Paul writes a monthly technical column for the Cessna Pilots Association (CPA) magazine, serves as a technical advisor to their membership, and presents Cessna model-specific Systems and Procedures classes for CPA as well. He presents technical classes for the Cessna Advanced Aircraft Club (CAAC), which is the Columbia series aircraft. Paul began presenting technical classes at the COPA CPPP events in 2017. He also takes part monthly on the AOPA podcast “Ask the A&P” along with his friends Mike Busch and Colleen Sterling. Host Bio

PAUL NEW - Presenter

Paul New has flown and worked on piston-engine airplanes since grade school. After earning a degree in Aircraft Electronics, he started and managed two avionics shops. In 1986, he and his wife, Helen, took over the family business his father began in 1974, Tennessee Aircraft Services, Inc in Jackson, TN. It is now a Cirrus and Textron factory-authorized service center.

Paul is an FAA certificated Airframe and Powerplant mechanic with Inspection Authorization. In addition, he’s a private pilot with instrument and multi-engine ratings. He enjoys flying his 2002 Cirrus G1 for personal and business use.

Paul writes a monthly technical column for the Cessna Pilots Association (CPA) magazine, serves as a technical advisor to their membership, and presents Cessna model-specific Systems began presenting technical classes at the COPA CPPP events in 2017. He also takes part monthly on the AOPA podcast “Ask the A&P” along with his friends Mike Busch and Colleen Sterling.