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Safety records of NBAA Part 91pilots are anything but accidents of fate

The National Business Aviation Association presents Pilot Flying Safety Awards each year to the member company pilots with exemplary safety records.

By Mary F. Silitch

October 1, 2008

The National Business Aviation Association presents Pilot Flying Safety Awards each year to the member company pilots with exemplary safety records. To be eligible for an award, a pilot must have flown corporate aircraft 1,500 hours without an accident, but the actual number of safe hours flown by many of the 2007 top pilots, who have already received their awards, are much higher. The top recipient, George Thomsen, has logged 30,136.
NBAA Convention News talked with the top pilots–Thomsen of Aviation Management Systems; William White, Keller Companies; William Smith, The Conair Group; Steven Lyddon, Lyddon Aero Center; and Paul Stinebring, Emerson Flight Operations–to learn more about their safe-flying secrets. Together, the top five have flown 138,773 safe corporate flight hours.

George Thomsen
pilot
Aviation Management Systems
Naples, Fla.
30,136 Hours

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