Rowland Seckinger

Rowland Seckinger is an FAA Designated Airworthiness Representative – Manufacturing (DAR-F) and ODA Inspection Authorized Representative with more than 40 years of aviation experience. His background combines 20 years of FAA certification, project management, and quality regulatory compliance across production, flight test, and structural test with 20 years of hands-on military aircraft and propulsion experience.

As an independent DAR-F and ODA Inspection AR, Rowland performs conformity inspections and airworthiness determinations at the place of manufacture and by virtual means in support of Requests for Conformity (RFC) on TC, PC, and STC projects, EWIS installations, component testing, and TIA activities. His inspection scope covers software part build and loading, electronic control hardware, wiring harnesses, engine mechanical and electronic control components, composite and metallic structure, and test articles for fire, stress, and structural load testing.

Rowland spent 14 years at Gulfstream Aerospace in Savannah, Georgia, progressing from Senior Airworthiness Inspector to Aircraft Certification Inspector on the G650 program and Aircraft Certification Inspection Lead on the GVII-G500/G600 program, where he directed a team of 21 Inspection Authorized Representatives across five flight test aircraft and two ground test articles. As Senior Certification Project Specialist for ODA Programs he managed the evaluation and issuance of more than 2,500 Requests for Conformity (FAA Form 8120-10), and as Senior AR Specialist for the Gulfstream ODA he provided oversight, auditing, training support, and mentoring for approximately 240 Inspection AR delegates across Gulfstream facilities, satellite locations, and suppliers. His delegated work has included issuing FAA Form 8130-3 Authorized Release Certificates, recording conformity determinations on FAA Form 8100-1, developing operating limitations, and issuing Standard (FAA Form 8100-2) and Special (FAA Form 8130-7) Airworthiness Certificates in accordance with FAA Orders 8100.8 and 8100.15.

Before Gulfstream, Rowland served as a Quality Control Inspector at a 14 CFR Part 145 repair station performing heavy C- and D-check inspections and RII release on Boeing 727 and 737 aircraft. He is a U.S. Air Force veteran who served on active duty and then as a civil service technician with the Florida Air National Guard, working as a jet engine technician, crew chief, line maintenance supervisor, lead technician, and training manager on F-15, F-16, and C-130 aircraft and their Pratt & Whitney F100 and Rolls-Royce T56 engines.

Rowland holds an FAA DAR-F designation, serves as an Inspection Unit Member for multiple ODAs, and holds an FAA Airframe and Powerplant certificate. He is an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer and a graduate of the USAF NCO Academy.