Consultant, Kevin Kennedy Associates Inc.
Providing expertise in air safety investigation, flight safety management, helicopter flight and fleet management, heliport design, accident investigation and reconstruction, expert testimony, and related expertise to a wide variety of clients.
Captain, (IFR) REACH, Redwood Empire Air Care Helicopters, Santa Rosa County, CA
Provided medical evacuations and transport under all weather, night instrument conditions, operating single-piloted, multi-engine instrument helicopters between accident scenes and area hospitals. Accident free.
Director of Marketing, Captain, Helicopters Unlimited, Oakland, CA
Implemented the first multi-engine executive charter helicopter operations in the area, serving regular clients including celebrities, CEOs, and state governor. Accident free.
Director of Flight Safety, SFO Helicopter Airline, Oakland – San Francisco, CA
Established and directed the safety and security programs for one of the U.S. largest scheduled helicopter airlines, operating a total turbine helicopter fleet between major air carriers at Oakland, San Jose and San Francisco. Successful safety program management highlighted in excess of 35,000 revenue flights without a single accident.
Air Safety Consultant, Team Safety Manager, helicopter global circumnavigation by Spirit of Texas, H. Ross Perot
Record setting helicopter with team photos are on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C. Designed the shipboard pad and fuel system and then directed the shipboard landing and refueling of Spirit of Texas off the northeast Siberian coast between the Alaskan Aleutian Islands and Japan.
Rescue Pilot-in-Command, and Flight Safety Officer, U. S. Coast Guard, Department of Transportation
Involved in operational assignments over 11 continuous years at rescue stations and shipboard deployments in Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Indian Ocean and Antarctica.
Flight Safety Officer, USCG Air Station, Miami, FL
Managed flying safety program for the Coast Guard's largest and most active rescue air units during the Cuban Exodus. In over 1000 missions, and saving thousands of refugees on the high seas, the flight operations were accident free. Standardization and Evaluation (Stan-Eval) check airman and accident board president. Conducted helicopter accident investigations nation-wide, on assignment from USCG Headquarters, Washington, D.C..
Flight Safety Officer, USCG Air Station, San Francisco International Airport
Was Department Head and Safety Program Manager for largest west coast air unit, multi mission base with Sikorsky helicopters, Grumman and Lockheed aircraft. Check airman, both operational and instrument (Stan-Eval) aircraft accident investigation assignments by CG Headquarters.
