Honeywell Announces 2018 Channel Partner of the Year Award

Honeywell Channel Partners are members of a carefully-selected group of companies chosen because of their unique market reach, commitment to growth, and a strong track record of performance, integrity, and compliance.

With the aim of celebrating extraordinary business achievements throughout the year, Honeywell Aerospace has established the official Channel Partner of the Year awards. Given at the global level, Honeywell Channel Partner of the Year awards recognize Channel Partners for their strong performance, a commitment to cooperation and for providing customers with genuine Honeywell parts, OEM level support (guaranteed OEM approved technical data and or tech publications) and decreasing time to market. Honeywell Aerospace is pleased to recognize nine partner companies that have helped take our products and services to new heights in 2018.

VSE Aviation is no stranger to our business and winning the 2018 Honeywell Channel Partner of the Year and Distributor Channel Partner of the Year awards compliments their current level of performance and expertise of Honeywell products and services. Having successfully established their credibility in other regions, it was a natural path for them to spread their wings to APAC. They see a lot of potential in growing with Honeywell for the aerospace business, and having exceeded their growth targets for 2018, they are committed to continuing to build on their successes. Since 2017, VSE Aviation has invested in people, infrastructure, and have quickly established business relationships with key customers – which sets them up for continued success for the future.

TP Aerospace was selected as the 2018 Service Center/MRO Channel Partner of the Year based on demonstrated successful results in both service and support of operators, as well as superior day-to-day tactical performance. TP Aerospace met or exceeded their Channel Partner commitments throughout 2018 and appear poised to continue their positive trajectory in 2019.

Our 2018 Dealer Channel Partner of the Year award was given to Vista Aviation, who effectively demonstrated growth by significantly overdriving their AOP plan by 55%. Vista Aviation continues to be a highly-valued partner, and a Honeywell ambassador, while continuing to serve their customers at a high level.

Winner of the ATR Channel Partner of the Year Award, Fokker Services has recognized and embraced the opportunities of our Channel Partnership program, reaching the highest growth rate in the EMEAI region. Further, Fokker is the sole ATR Channel Partner that invested in STCs in coordination with Honeywell, leading to unique results in Honeywell RMU market penetration.

BGA Channel Partner of the Year, Duncan Aviation is recognized for their active engagement with Honeywell and partnership on sales opportunities. They have demonstrated a commitment to growth, improved cost to serve, and have been Honeywell product and services promoters to the business aviation industry.

Recipient of the D&S Channel Partner of the Year award, in 2018 Norcatec grew its Honeywell product sales by 25%, led the class in adhering to the working capital and cost to serve metrics, and continued to be a superior Honeywell Ambassador. Norcatec remains a leading service-driven Defense and Space supply-chain distribution partner, focusing on unparalleled customer support for Honeywell product users.

At a regional level, the Americas Channel Partner of the Year award went to Dallas Airmotive who exemplified outstanding behaviors of a Channel Partner in 2018. Dallas Airmotive has been in the forefront in working with Honeywell on its initiatives by being a growth champion as well as an innovator in the way we do business in Aerospace.

With locations in Germany, our EMEAI Channel Partner of the Year, ACC COLUMBIA Jet Service, is a leading aircraft repair and maintenance organization for small, midsize and large cabin business jets. This award recognizes their unparalleled commitment and appetite for growth and their proactive promotion of the Honeywell suite of cockpit upgrades, cabin and connectivity solutions. ACC Columbia recently completed the largest single aircraft ever in EMEAI, including cockpit and cabin upgrades and modifications.

The 2018 APAC Channel Partner of the Year award recognizes Wuhan Hangda. They became an important Channel Partner for repairs and overhaul, quickly filling in the position that had been made vacant by Feng Rong’s exit. Their expertise and knowledge of the business, their performance in turnaround times to end-customers and receivables to Honeywell were some of the best views the business with Honeywell as a long-term investment and are very keen to take the business venture to the next level.

We take this opportunity to congratulate all the winners of the 2018 Honeywell Aerospace Channel Partner Awards, to thank them for their work done so far, and to wish them and the rest of our Channel Partners a successful 2019 in further promoting our services, products, and technologies.