Elected Officers

Trevor Burke
Secretary
Trevor is an international aerospace business manager and systems engineer based in Georgia. He has a life-long passion for everything aviation and his broad and deep experience includes most aspects of acquisition, airworthiness management, and integrated sustainment business, spans US and foreign programs and air forces, and covers aircraft from modern day to WW2 vintage types. Trevor has extensive experience with ensuring the Operational Safety Suitability and Effectiveness of ‘legacy’ fleets and has commanded and contracted for maintenance in the field, at home base and in the depot. He co-pioneered the global integrated sustainment partnership that enabled and now supports all C-17 exports and was chief author of the first US-led multinational joint military aviation safety management system for the 12-nation Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC). While leading NATO’s US-based SAC support team he mentored an award-winning FMS business planning and performance system that positively transformed FMS customer experience.
Trevor is a Royal Air Force veteran and more recently served on NATO’s international staff supporting the SAC partnership. Now a US citizen he focuses his talents on helping develop and grow the business of US aerospace & defence companies of all sizes. In his spare time Trevor advocates for updating obsolete military airworthiness and safety management systems with the latest generation of international military airworthiness management protocols.

Don Roberts
President
As a retired Lockheed Martin Fellow for Airworthiness and Airworthiness Certification, Don brings over 35 years of expertise in Design, Manufacturing, Quality Assurance, and Airworthiness Engineering. He gained this experience through working numerous civil and military programs at both Boeing and LockheedMartin. He served on the Baylor University School of Engineering and Computer Science Board of Advocates. Don currently serves as an Associate at Dayton Aerospace, Inc.

Mike Troup
Vice-President
With over twenty-one years of experience in Naval Aviation, Systems Engineering, and Airworthiness Certification, he currently works as the airworthiness lead for two military programs at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Fort Worth. Mr. Troup is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering and Troy State University with a Master of Science in Management. Mike participates in the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Rising Technical Talent (RTT) program for airworthiness whose purpose is developing and preparing members for qualification and selection as a Lockheed Martin Fellow.

Mike Fox
Treasurer
A retired Lockheed Martin Fellow for Airworthiness and Airworthiness Certification, Mike has forty-five years in the aircraft design, test, and certification fields. Mr. Fox focused on military aircraft while at General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin and advanced aircraft concepts while at NASA Langley Research Center. He was an integral team member in numerous aircraft programs from the design through test flight phases. He led the origination of the F-35 Airworthiness Certification approach and process through the joint industry, government, and customer forum, which has resulted in providing U.S. and international customers with an airworthy aircraft for fleet operations.