Welcome to Tales from the Frontlines - the Kilroy Aviation Blog, where we will update our friends and followers on Kilroy activities, current affairs, opinions and whatever strikes our fancy, or maybe yours. Kilroy Aviation is owned and operated by Erich Hopkins, Nick Olmsted and Mike Borfitz. We formalized our company as “Kilroy Aviation, LLC”, a Delaware company, on March 28, 2018 and applied to the FAA for our ODA on June 5, 2018. We expect to receive our ODA authorization by the end of this year.  

Our daily activities are framed by two simple words: “Performance and Integrity”, meaning we bring the full weight of our knowledge and experience to every project (Performance). We tell on ourselves if there are any mistakes or errors (Integrity), then immediately correct them, roll the results into our daily activities and monitor changes for effectiveness. The loop is then closed and we return to Performance.

We have over 70 combined years of FAA certification experience among the three of us. Our greatest strength is based on that, and we’re not bragging to say we are the best there is. Our experience has shown us that every step, every decision in a certification project leads to several options, then after selecting the best option for that project, we’re confronted by more options, and so on. Our job is to assist our clients with those decisions; we have witnessed inexperienced project managers making decisions that created higher costs and frustrating schedule shifts. 

THIS is why every project needs experienced guides like we offer at Kilroy Aviation. We’ve seen far too many future clients find themselves where the dragons lurk. In the same way the ancient maps declared “Hic Sunt Dracones”, or HERE BE DRAGONS, not all projects survive on their own, without skilled guides. And we stand ready to help. Call us.