Pentastar’s VP Robert Rufli elected as Vice Chairman of ACSF

Pentastar’s VP Robert Rufli elected as Vice Chairman of ACSF:

18 July 2019:Pentastar Aviation's Vice President of Flight Operations and Director of Operations Robert Rufli, has been elected Vice Chairman of the Air Charter Safety Foundation (ACSF). Since 2015, Rufli has served on the ACSF Board of Governors.

As Vice-Chairman, Rufli will be responsible for leading ACSF and supporting the advancement of the highest safety standards available to permit the business, charter and fractional ownership industry to offer the safe air transportation products and to provide objective information about these standards and services to the people.

Rufli has over 35 years of experience in the aviation industry. He has served as Vice-President of Flight Operations and Director of Operations for Pentastar for more than two years.

He has a lot of knowledge in FAA operational certification and certificate merger projects and his experience also includes worldwide flight experience, startup and operations of corporate shuttles, 14 CFR Part 121 initial operational certification, FAA authorised A 502 Merger of five Part 135 Certificates and implementation of cloud-based data management tools, among others.

ACSF President, Bryan Burns said, "We are pleased to welcome Bob as Vice-Chairman. He has a deep passion for the improvement and enhancement of all aspects of the air charter industry, from safety to the advocacy and support for standards."