Parker Bertea Veteran Leaves Post

Larry M. Calvert, a 23-year manager at Parker Bertea Aerospace, has been named president and general manager of Fairchild Controls in Manhattan Beach.

Calvert, 50, started at Parker Bertea, a subsidiary of Parker Hannifin Corp. in Cleveland, as a precision machinist in 1967. He later rose through the management ranks to became general manager of Parker Bertea in 1987.

Fairchild Controls makes such aerospace components as valves and regulators.

Calvert will report to Richard E. Brackeen, chairman and chief executive of Fairchild Controls, a subsidiary of Fairchild Space & Defense Corp. in Germantown, Md. Fairchild Space & Defense is part of the Matra Group, a $3.6-billion aerospace firm in France.