Chief Test Pilots by Company
Introduction
Note that some chief test pilots are titled "Chief Engineering Test Pilots", likely to distinguish them from chief production acceptance test pilots or chief test pilots of individual plants.
Note that some of the dates are not necessarily when the pilot started in his position, only when they were confirmed to have had the job.
Chief Test Pilots
Name | Date |
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ACE | |
Joseph A. Meehan[1] | 1931 |
Aeronca | |
Lou Wehrung[2] | 1943 |
Allison | |
"Pinky" Grimes[3] | 19XX |
B. T. Hulse[4][5] | 1945 |
American Eagle | |
Larry D. Ruch[6] | 1930 |
Beechcraft | |
Ray C. Barker[7] | 1930s |
H. C. Rankin[8] | 1941 |
Vern L. Carstens[9][10][11] | 1941?-1956? |
Stephen Tuttle[12] | 19XX-1969 |
Bell | |
Homer Berry[13] | 19XX-19XX |
Robert M. Stanley[14] | 1942 |
Jack Woolams[15] | 1943 |
Alvin M. Johnston[16] | 1946? |
Jean L. Ziegler[17] | 1953 |
Bellanca | |
George W. Haldeman[18] | 1929 |
Stuart Chadwick[19] | 19XX-1933 |
Boeing | |
Edmund T. Allen[20] | 1940 |
Alvin M. Johnston[21] | 1955 |
Jack Waddell[22] | 1969 |
S.L. Wallick Jr.[23] | 19XX-1986 |
Brewster | |
Woodward Burke[24] | 1939-1944 |
Buhl | |
Jack Story[25] | 1931 |
Canadair | |
Doug Adkins[26] | 19XX |
Cessna | |
Woods Rogers[27] | 1930 |
Mort Brown[28] | 1972 |
Columbia | |
John M. Miller[29] | 1943-1945 |
Consolidated | |
William B. Wheatley[30] | 1931-1941 |
Convair | |
Geo S. Oberdorf[31] | 1945 |
Russell R. Rogers[32] | 1947 |
Beryl A. Erickson[33] | 1952 |
Richard L. Johnson[34] | 1953 |
Culver | |
Don Walters[35] | 1940 |
Cunningham-Hall | |
Paul D. Wilson[36] | 19XX |
Curtiss | |
Roland Rohlfs[37] | 1919? |
Temple N. Joyce[38] | 1919? |
Bert Acosta[39] | 1921 |
Charles S. Jones[40] | 1924 |
Curtiss-Wright | |
Earl K. Campbell[41] | 19XX-19XX |
Jimmy Collins[42] | 19XX-19XX |
William J. Crosswell[43] | 19XX-19XX |
H. Lloyd Child[44] | 1940 |
E. E. Elliot[45] | 1943 |
Herbert O. Fisher[46] | 19XX-19XX |
Dare | |
Tom Mitchell[47] | 1929 |
Dayton-Wright | |
Howard Rinehart[48] | 1920 |
de Havilland Canada | |
Russell Bannock | 1946-1950? |
Douglas | |
Carl A. Cover | 1930 |
E. H. Veblen[49] | 1938 |
John W. Cable[50] | 19XX-1939 |
John F. Martin[51] | 1948 |
William M. Magruder[52] | 1961 |
Fairchild | |
Richard A. Henson[53][<span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.">failed verification] | 1947 |
Howard W. Nelson[54] | 19XX-1977 |
Fisher Body | |
B. T. Hulse[55] | 1944 |
Fokker (America) | |
Hugh Wells[56] | 1928 |
Ford | |
Harry Brooks[57] | 19XX-1928 |
Leroy Manning[58] | 19XX-1931 |
Globe | |
Ted Yarbrough[59] | 19XX-19XX |
Goodyear | |
Don Armstrong[60] | 1945 |
Grumman | |
Seldin Converse[61] | 1943 |
Robert K. Smyth[62] | 1967-19XX |
Charles A. Sewell[62] | 1971-19XX |
Gulfstream | |
John O'Meara[63] | 20XX |
Heath | |
Merle Lambert[64] | 1931 |
Hiller | |
Frank W. Peterson[65] | 1949 |
Huff-Daland | |
Luke Christopher[66] | 1925 |
Interstate | |
E. G. Kidwell[67] | 1941 |
Kaiser-Fleetwings | |
William Harry Engle[68] | 19XX-19XX |
Kellett | |
John M. Miller[69] | 19XX-19XX |
Keystone | |
Stanley Jacques[70] | 1928 |
Kreider-Reisner | |
Clyde Gault[71] | 1928 |
Laird | |
Ewing Brierly[72] | 1928 |
Lincoln | |
Malcom S. Smith[73] | 1930 |
Lockheed | |
Wiley H. Post[74] | 19XX-1929 |
Herbert J. Fahey[75] | 1930 |
W. H. Catlin[76] | 1930 |
Marshall E. Headle[74] | 1929-19XX |
Milo G. Burcham | 19XX-1944 |
Anthony W. LeVier | 19XX-19XX |
Herman R. Salmon | 19XX-19XX |
Mahoney | |
J. J. Herrington[77] | 1928 |
Martin | |
Edward R. Fenimore[78] | 19XX |
William K. Ebel[79] | 1942 |
McDonnell | |
Ed E. Elliot[80][81] | 1944 |
Woodward Burke[82] | 19XX |
Robert Edholm[83] | 1949 |
Robert C. Little[84] | 1953 |
John E. Krings[85] | 1962 |
McDonnell Douglas | |
Irv Burrows[86] | 1972 |
Herman H. Knickerbocker[87] | 1978-19XX |
Mono | |
Verne Roberts[88] | 1929 |
Moth | |
Ronald Smith[89] | 1929 |
Al Krapish[90] | 1929 |
North American | |
Paul B. Balfour[91] | 19XX-1941 |
Robert C. Chilton[91] | 1941-19XX |
George S. Welch[92][93] | 1947?-1953? |
Joel R. Baker[94] | 1954 |
Albert S. Crossfield, Jr.[95] | 1955 |
Richard M. Wenzell[96] | 19XX-19XX |
Edward A. Gillespie[97] | 1964-19XX |
Robert W. Fero[98] | 1966-19XX |
Northrop | |
G. H. Irving[99] | 1936 |
Vance Breese | 1941 |
John W. Myers | 1941 |
Lewis A. Nelson[100] | 1952 |
Henry E. Chouteau[101] | 1972 |
Richard G. Thomas[102] | 1982 |
Darrell E. Cornell | 19XX-1984 |
Northrop Grumman | |
Troy Johnson[103] | 19XX-19XX |
Packard | |
Walter Lees[104] | 1930 |
Piper | |
Thomas Heffner[105] | 19XX |
John Patrick[106] | 19XX-1979 |
Pitcairn-Cierva | |
James G. Ray[107] | 1931 |
Pratt & Whitney | |
Lewis A. MacClain[108] | 1931 |
Republic | |
George W. Burrell[109] | 19XX-1942 |
Lowery L. Brabham[110][111] | 1942 |
Joseph Parker[112] | 19XX-19XX |
Thomas Mason[113] | 1958 |
Ryan | |
Robert Kerling[114] | 19XX-1944 |
Al Conover[115] | 1945 |
Sikorsky | |
Boris Sergievsky[116] | 1936 |
Jimmy Viner[117] | 1945? |
Spartan | |
William Welborn[118] | 1929 |
Star | |
Art Mills[119] | 1930 |
Stearman | |
Fred Hoyt[120] | 1928 |
Stinson | |
Al Scharn[121] | 1943 |
Swallow | |
Jay Sadowsky[122] | 1928 |
L. H. Connell[123] | 1928 |
Taylorcraft | |
Ray Kirschler[124] | 1951 |
Thomas-Morse | |
P. D. Wilson[125] | 19XX |
Travel Air | |
Clarence E. Clark[126] | 1925-1930 |
Vega | |
Charles Langmack[127] | 1942 |
Vought | |
Paul S. Baker[128] | 1935 |
Lyman A. Bullard, Jr.[129] | 1943 |
W. Paul Thayer | 1949 |
John McGuyrt[130] | 1954 |
John W. Konrad[131] | 1955 |
Vultee | |
Frank Davis[132] | 1942 |
Waco | |
Freddie Lund[133] | 1927-19XX |
Wright | |
Clarence D. Chamberlin[134] | 1927 |
Leon Allen[135] | 1929 |
Yunker | |
Harold McCrary[136] | 1929 |
Plant Test Pilots
Name | Date |
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Boeing | |
Pat Howard[137] | 1943 |
Curtiss-Wright | |
Barton T. Hulse[138] | 1941 |
Harvey Gray[139] | 1943 |
Martin | |
Fred M. Bryant[140] | 1943 |
North American | |
Vern T. Irons[141] | 1942 |
Raymond B. Quick[142] | 1942 |
Republic | |
Victor F. Pixey[143] | 1942 |
Edmond B. Belches[144] | 1942-1943 |
Vultee | |
Howard Kincheloe[145] | 1943 |
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