With Airworthiness Management System, BCX Aims To Streamline Certification Process

Back when David Bernstorf was involved in certifying new aircraft and developing supplemental type certificates for his employer, he joked about backing up a truck onto the parking lot of the FAA certification office and dumping the huge volumes of paper that accompany any certification program. Joking aside, all of the paper can amount to a truckload. Assembling that volume of paperwork, not to mention finding one report in the huge pile, was a frustrating endeavor.

After retiring from Hawker Beechcraft in 2010 as vice president of safety and certification, Bernstorf decided to do something about the inefficient certification process and launched BCX Software, in partnership with Larry Van Dyke of ICX Consulting (also a Hawker Beechcraft retiree), to develop the electronic airworthiness management system (AMS).