Over 40 Years of Aviation Experience
Kenneth M. Dufour brings a unique combination of flying, hands on aviation experience, and academic involvement to his consulting practice.
Mr. Dufour’s aviation career spans over 30 years of aviation involvement. He has held positions of increasing responsibility; including Regional Marketing Manager, Area Manager, Regional Vice-President, for Gulfstream Aerospace; Honeywell, BF Goodrich Aerospace, Allied-Signal, and Litton Aero Products.
He has been involved in several business expansions; corporate reengineering programs and has a
leadership record of exceptional performance results. His contribution to these programs has been in the development and program management of key corporate initiatives (including Market Analysis and Forecast, New Product Introduction, Product-Line Expansion, Budgeting, Staffing, and Business Development Programs). He has been recognized for his excellence in Business Development, Customer Growth, Sales Achievement, and Customer Support throughout his career.
His portfolio includes a wealth of avionics experiences and knowledge on various Flight Deck Systems in numerous aircraft including Corporate, Air Transport, Regional Airline, and Military Applications.
Avionics experiences include Conceptual and Systems Design, Flight Operations, FAA Certification, and marketing/business development of these systems. These systems include Inertial, Omega, GPS Long-range Navigation System, Reactive and Forward Looking Windshear, TCAS I & II, CNI, ACARS, Satcom, as well as Flight Management Systems.
Mr. Dufour provides aircraft appraisal, valuations, audit, inspection services for different segments within the aviation community, performs duties as an arbitrator and forensic appraiser. These services include current and future value assessments for different aircraft as well as expert testimony in reference to aircraft values. He is an Author of Aerospace Technical/Valuation Reports, a course developer, as well as a Consultant, Adjunct Professor, and Guest Lector for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University*.
Mr. Dufour belongs to the American Society of Appraisers where he holds the designation of ASA (Accredited Senior Appraiser), an aviation course developer and instructor, and a member of the International MTS Committee. Click here for more information about his ASA designation. Additionally, he is a member of the Business Aviation Subcommittee under the Transportation Research Board.** He is a past (2003-2005) member of the Board of Directors of the National Aircraft Finance Association.
Mr. Dufour earned a Bachelor of Professional Aeronautics and Master of Aviation Management Degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University* in Daytona Beach, Florida. He is a licensed Airline Transport Pilot and a Certified Flight Instructor for Single-Engine, Multi-Engine, and Instruments. Ken is a Co-Chairman Trustee of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, on the Board of Directors for Aviation & Space Technology Academy at ERAU, and a member trustee of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges.
Mr. Dufour currently is an aerospace consultant for the Gerson Lehman Industrial Council and Vista Research (division of Standard & Poor’s) and the Round Table Group, where he provides consulting on Aerospace/Aviation topics. Mr. Dufour has been a fulltime, independent aircraft and aerospace asset appraiser and portfolio manager for the last ten years with over 30 years of aviation industry experience.
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In 1991 Mr. Dufour established Aviation Management Consulting, Inc. in Rockford, Illinois to furnish management, marketing/business development, valuation services, and technical needs for the aerospace marketplace.
*Embry-Riddle, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, offers more than 30 degree programs in its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Engineering and meets the needs of students and industry through its educational, training, research, and consulting activities. Embry-Riddle educates more than 40,000 students annually through the master level at residential campuses in Prescott, Arizona and Daytona Beach, Florida, through the Worldwide Campus at more than 130 teaching centers in the United States and Europe, and worldwide through distance learning. Mr. Dufour is the Chairman of Student Affairs Committee, a member of the Executive Committee, Flight Safety and Institutional Advancement Committees. He has been a Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Board of Trustee member for over 10 years.
** The Transportation Research Board (TRB) is a unit of the National Research Council, a private, nonprofit institution that is the principal operating agency of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. The Board’s mission is to promote innovation and progress in transportation by stimulating and conducting research, facilitating the dissemination of information, and encouraging the implementation of research results.
TRB fulfills this mission through the work of its standing technical committees and task forces addressing all modes and aspects of transportation; publication and dissemination of reports and peer-reviewed technical papers on research findings; administration of two contract research programs; conduct of special studies on transportation policy issues at the request of the U.S. Congress and government agencies.
*** The National Aircraft Finance Association (NAFA) was established to promote the general welfare of those persons and organizations who provide financing/leasing for the purchase of aircraft or who make loans secured by aircraft; to improve such industry’s service to the public; to cooperate with government officials in furthering the national welfare; and to carry out other activities recognized as lawful and beneficial for such type of organization.
Kenneth M. Dufour, Accredited Senior Appraiser & Property Economics Professional
AVIATION MANAGEMENT CONSULTING, INC.
3645 Foxborough Lane, Suite 1011A
Rockford, IL 61114-7062 USA
Telephone: (815) 633-1684
Facsimile: (815) 633-1696
Cellular: 815-621-9494