Elected Officers

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.

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.

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.

Ronald A. Wingfield is a recognized expert in the Airworthiness Certification and System Safety of civil, public, commercial derivative, and foreign commercial/military aircraft. He has over 30 years of demonstrated industry and government Systems and Airworthiness engineering team and leadership experience successfully planning, leading, and executing a multitude of manned, unmanned, fixed, and rotary-wing air vehicle system major and minor acquisition (ACAT I, II, and III), modification, and sustainment programs directly with the US Army (SRD), the US Navy (NAVAIR), the USAF (AFLCMC), DARPA, the UK MoD, and the FAA.  Mr. Wingfield is currently a Technical Fellow for the Bell/Textron MV-75 Program and an Associate Technical Fellow (ATF) and Technical Competency Lead (TCL) for Military Airworthiness at Bell/Textron.  He leads the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Tactical Technology Office (TTO) SPeed and Runway INdependent Technologies X-Plane Project Demonstrator (SPRINT-DX) and Special Mission Aircraft Airworthiness Certification Lead.

Mr. Wingfield has served as the US Army’s Fixed Wing Project Office (FWPO) Special Electronic Mission Aircraft (SEMA) Airworthiness Sustainment Engineering Lead (EO-5C, RC-12X/N, RO-6A, Saturn Arch, EMARSS S/M/V/G, C-12), the Director of Engineering - Airworthiness for Leonardo DRS (T-X, T-100), the Office of Under Secretary of Defense (OUSD) Airspace Integration, Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Task Force Airworthiness Sub-IPT Lead, the Lockheed Martin Airworthiness Certification Lead for the VH-71 VXX Presidential Helicopter Program, the US Army Special Operations Aircraft Division, US Army Systems Readiness Directorate (SRD) Technical Lead for the MH-47D/E/G Chinook Helicopter and has held multiple Senior/Principal leadership and Team Airworthiness positions, such as but not limited to working with General Atomics (UCLASS, MQ-20 Avenger), US Falcon/Boeing (KC-46 Pegasus), Viking Air Ltd (DHC-7), Bombardier (DHC-8), Leidos/Dynamic Aviation, Beechcraft/King Air (350/350ER, Model 300), Rolls Royce, Pratt and Whitney Canada (PWC), and Airbus.

Mr. Wingfield was the lead/primary OUSD coordinator and a co-author of the published and current Department of Defense Handbook, MIL-HDBK-516C, Airworthiness Certification Criteria, which establishes certification criteria, standards, and methods of compliance used in the determination of airworthiness of all manned and unmanned, fixed and rotary-wing air systems. 

Mr. Wingfield has a BS in Professional Aeronautics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and holds an FAA Mechanic License. He is a US Army Aviator/Veteran with ten years of service. He is a member of the Vertical Flight Society and the Army Association of America (AAAA).