Trish Beckman

About Trish Beckman

Skills include: Acceptance flight test and Developmental flight test Flight test engineering Systems integration Program management, Technical management, and Test management Aerospace engineering Team leader For 12 years I flew for Boeing Test & Evaluation, Seattle, Washington. I am FAA certificated as an Aircraft Dispatcher and as a Flight Navigator. I flew as a System Operator (similar to flight engineer) for production and engineering test flights of the Boeing 737, and as a Flight Navigator for ferry flights and engineering test flights for several Boeing aircraft (737, 747, 757, 767, 787). I have logged over flight hours in 73 aircraft types. I spent over 28 years on active duty in the US Navy (8 years enlisted and 20 years as an officer). As a Naval Flight Officer (NFO, or Navigator), I flew in 67 types of aircraft. My primary aircraft qualifications were in the EC-130Q, F/A-18D, E-6A, S-3A/B, and F-15E. I was the first woman to qualify as a crewmember in the F-15 (F-15E WSO, 1992), and I was the first American woman to qualify as a crewmember in the F/A-18 (F/A-18D WSO, 1990).

Experience

1. Flight Test Engineer

   Boeing

   Mar 2014 — Present

Education

• North Carolina State University

  BS

  1974 — 1978

• Naval Postgraduate School

  MS

  1986 — 1987

• Webster University

  MBA

  2000 — 2002