AIAA Los Angeles Section

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AIAA Los Angeles Section Town Hall Meeting 5/3 (Webinar)
(A hybrid event: In-person and online attendance)
Saturday, May 3, 2025, 11 AM PDT (GMT -0700) (U.S. and Canada)

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May 03

(2025 May 3) The Current State of Aviation Safety: An Accident Investigator’s Perspective

Presenter / Speaker:
Mr. Jeff Guzzetti
Former NTSB and FAA Air Safety Investigator
Instructor at the USC Viterbi Aviation Safety & Security Program

(The speaker will present on-line.)

(The seatings in the smaller Conference Room are very limited. Unless you are committed for showing up in person, please register for the on-line tickets / attendance. Thank you very much.)

Lawndale Library (Conference Room)
14615 Burin Ave, Lawndale, CA 90260

Virtual location
You will receive a confirmation email with a URL.
May 03, 2025 11:00am PT - May 03, 2025 12:40pm PT

Disclaimer: The views of the speakers do not represent the views of AIAA or the AIAA Los Angeles Section.

The Current State of Aviation Safety: An Accident Investigator’s Perspective
With the recent spate of commercial aircraft accidents in the United States and elsewhere, the importance of proper and comprehensive investigations is key to obtaining the relevant facts, identifying hazards, and performing analysis to prevent future accidents and restore the faith of the flying public in our aviation system.
Jeff Guzzetti
Former NTSB and FAA Air Safety Investigator
Instructor at the USC Viterbi Aviation Safety & Security Program
Jeff Guzzetti is the President of Guzzetti Aviation Risk Discovery, LLC (GuARD), which is an aviation safety consulting firm that he established following his retirement from the Federal government after a 35-year career in aviation safety and accident investigation.
Jeff began his career with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 1985 as an aerospace engineer at the FAA Technical Center’s Aviation Safety Division in New Jersey. He later held positions in systems safety engineering for the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command, and then as an air safety investigator with the Cessna Aircraft Company. While at Cessna, Jeff traveled across the U.S. to assist FAA inspectors and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators with technical expertise on Cessna airplanes.
Jeff was then recruited by the NTSB in 1992 and worked in the agency’s Office of Aviation Safety for 17 years, first as a field investigator, then as a systems engineer for the NTSB “go-team,” and later as an investigator-in-charge of major investigations. He led key aspects of many notable investigations including Alaska Airlines Flight 261 in California, the John F. Kennedy Jr. Piper accident, and numerous business jet accidents in the U.S. and abroad. Jeff was then promoted to Deputy Director for Regional Operations in 2002, a position responsible for overseeing the NTSB’s investigation and probable cause determination of 1,600 general aviation accidents each year.
In August 2010, Jeff left the NTSB to accept an appointment as the Assistant Inspector General of Aviation Audits at the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Office of Inspector General (OIG). He was responsible for the issuance of audit reports addressing major FAA programs, and he personally testified before Congress on several occasions regarding aviation safety topics.
In 2014, Jeff was asked to serve as the Director of FAA’s Accident Investigation Division (AVP-100). This division is responsible for ensuring the integrity of policies and practices for FAA inspectors assigned to investigate aircraft accidents and incidents. The division also serves as the primary FAA liaison with the NTSB, and it employs a group of senior investigators to represent the agency for major air safety investigations domestic and abroad. Jeff retired from this position in February 2019.
Jeff graduated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University with a B.S. degree in Aeronautical Engineering. He is also a commercial-rated pilot with multi-engine instrument ratings in airplanes, seaplanes, and gliders. Jeff lives in Burke, Virginia with his wife and two sons. His brother is a major airline pilot, and his father served as a Boeing B-17 navigator.
(Moderator)
Daniel Scalese
Laboratory Manager,
USC Aviation Safety and Security Program
Email: scalese@usc.edu
(New courses with the USC Aerospace Safety will start April 8, 2025. Please contact Mr. Daniel Scalese for further information before April 8.)
(Below are photos provided by Mr. Jeff Guzzetti.)
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May 14
(Wednesday, May 14) AIAA Los Angeles Section Annual Awards Dinner 2025
5:00 PM: Networking
5:50 PM: Dinner
7:00 PM: Program
For in-person attendees (for better experiences and interaction / networking), please join us at the event location:
Cambria Hotel LAX (Meeting Room and the Patio)
199 Continental Blvd, El Segundo, CA 90245
(If you ordered the online ticket, please enjoy on-line. The Zoom link will be provided in the Confirmation email right after the registration, and the reminder emails. Please check Spam/Junk or another folder if it's not in Inbox. It could be also filtered for deletion automatically by the email service provider. Thank you very much!)

Cambria Hotel LAX
199 Continental Blvd, El Segundo, CA 90245

Virtual location
You will receive a confirmation email with a URL.
May 14, 2025 05:00pm PT - May 14, 2025 09:00pm PT

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*For dinner tickets, please place the order before Wednesday, May 7, 2025. Afterwards, the availability for it might be limited. This is a banquet & networking event best for in-person attendance for interactions and networking experiences. Thank you very much !
Please join us for our annual Awards Dinner
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Recognizing Excellence in our Section
Keynote Address
The Honorable Mr. Steven J. Isakowitz
To be presented:
AIAA Los Angeles Excellence Award 2025
(To Be Announced)
To be recognized:
AIAA Honorary Fellow, Class of 2025
The Honorable Mr. Steven J. Isakowitz
AIAA Fellow, Class of 2025
Dr. Vinay Goyal
(and other membership advancement / honors in Los Angeles Section)
also
AIAA Best Paper Awards
(To Be Announced)
AIAA Los Angeles Section
Best Event Award
The James Wertz Scholarship
STEM Student Awards
AIAA SSTC Middle School Essay Contest Local Entry Recognition
Recognition of 2025 Chapter Honorees
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An fast-growing year in aerospace! You don't want to miss this!
The year of 2024 - 2025 marked another amazing year for aerospace, especially for the AIAA Los Angeles Section area! The recent record-breaking by the USCRPL Student Team's rocket, breaking the altitude record of global amateur rockets for solid fuel single stage rockets. The successful missions of the M-2 and M-3 (Varda Space Industries) hypersonic reentry vehicles with microgravity bio-pharmaceutical experiment payloads, Skyryse One “First Swipe” by Skyryse (El Segundo, CA), the world’s first fully-conforming production aircraft to accomplish a fully automated hover - and set-down - at the swipe of a finger, powered by SkyOS – the world’s first universal operating system for flight, the R88 Helicopter by Robinson Helicopter Company (RHC) for its first all-new aircraft in nearly 15 years, the amazing aerial wildfire-fighting efforts, SpaceX’s Fram2 mission returns from first-of-its-kind mission around Earth’s poles, and other aerospace technologies and progresses. More and more aerospace businesses moved into or expanded in the Los Angeles Section area.
We are blessed to be in the right place and at the right time! More exciting programs will take place as it goes. Other wonderful progresses and development have been growing rapidly. Nationally, we saw the first commercial Lunar landing with Blue Ghost (Firefly Aerospace), and the Boom Supersonic's XB-1, which smashed the sound barrier — becoming the 1st civil aircraft to go supersonic in the U.S. history. Please join us, have fun and cheer for the great accomplishment for the bright future in aerospace and mankind. The AIAA Los Angeles Section Annual Awards Dinner is also a condensed version of what the Institute / Section have been doing for a long time and a demonstration of our goal / mission / daily actions.
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The Honorable Mr. Steven J. Isakowitz
AIAA Honorary Fellow, Class of 2025
President and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation
2024 December 9:
https://aiaa.org/2024/12/09/aiaa-announces-class-of-2025-honorary-fellows-and-fellows/
https://aiaa.org/people/the-honorable-steven-j-isakowitz/
Steve Isakowitz is a recognized leader across the government, commercial, space and technology sectors, who has worked tirelessly throughout his career on behalf of the public good in space.
He currently serves as the President and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation, a leading architect for the nation’s space programs, where he heads up efforts to outpace threats to the country’s national security while nurturing the innovative technologies needed to further a new era of space commercialization and exploration. With his guidance, Aerospace’s national workforce of more than 4,600 employees provides objective technical expertise and thought leadership to solve the hardest problems in space and assure mission success for space systems and space vehicles. He is also a driving force behind Space Workforce for Tomorrow, a cross-industry effort to strengthen the nation’s space workforce for generations to come.
Over the course of his more than 30-year career, Isakowitz has made impactful contributions across a number of prominent roles, including at NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the White House Office of Management and Budget. His work has led to renewed plans to send humans to the moon, spurred government-wide efforts to research climate change, furthered the pursuit of breakthrough new clean energy technologies, and opened up commercial frontiers of space travel to the public. Prior to joining Aerospace, Isakowitz was President of Virgin Galactic, where he led development of LauncherOne, a novel air-launched orbital rocket to launch smaller satellites in a rapidly growing market, and oversaw groundbreaking development of SpaceShipTwo, a reusable, all-composite, winged vehicle to support suborbital launches of future astronauts.
Isakowitz serves on various advisory boards at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Loyola Marymount University, and has served on the FAA’s Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee. His work has been widely recognized and awarded, including the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal and the Presidential Distinguished Rank Award.
Tentative Agenda: (All Time PDT (US & Canada, GMT -0700))
17:00: Check-in, Networking
17:50: Welcome and Dinner
19:00: Keynote address (The Honorable Mr. Steven J. Isakowitz)
19:30: Excellence Award & Briefing
19:55: Recognitions (Membership Advancement and Anniversaries, AIAA National Awards)
20:20: Best Event Award
20:30: High School STEM Awards
20:40: James Wertz Scholarship
20:45: AIAA SSTC Middle School Essay Contest local entry recognition
20:50: Concluding Remarks
21:00: Adjourn (Networking)
22:00: All guests need to leave the event room completely by 2200.
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Disclaimer: The views of the speakers do not represent the views of AIAA or the AIAA Los Angeles-Las Vegas Section. This is not a course to train people how to start a business.

Tickets: (No Refund within 7 days before the event. No Refund during or after the event.)
In-Person:
Dinner: (Buffet)
Southwestern Salad
Corn, Beans, Bell Peppers, Green Onions, Tortilla Strips
BBQ Beef Brisket
Mac and Cheese
Mini Corn on the Cob
Coleslaw
Potato Salad
Corn Bread Muffins
Served with Lemonade Regular Coffee & Hot Water for Tea
Tickets:
$50 AIAA Student / Educator Member Price (w/ Dinner)
$55 Non-AIAA Member -Student / Educator (w/ Dinner)
$56 AIAA Professional Member Price (w/ Dinner)
$63 Non-AIAA Member -Professional Price (w/ Dinner)
$53 AIAA Life-Time Member (w/ Dinner)
$53 AIAA Member with 20 or more years of membership (w/ Dinner)
$15 Presentation Only (No Dinner) (limited) (It's encouraged to enjoy dinner together for better interaction/networking)

Online Only (Not In-Person Attendance) (No Dinner):
$2.95: (Online Only) AIAA Professional Member
$5.95: (Online Only) Non-AIAA Member - Professional
$1.95: (Online Only) AIAA Educator Member
$4.95: (Online Only) Non-AIAA Member - Educator
$1.45: (Online Only) AIAA University Student Member
$4.45: (Online Only) Non-AIAA Member - University Student
$0 (No Charge): (Online Only) AIAA High School (HS) Student Member, Non AIAA Member HS Student, and other K-12 Student
(Those K-12 student registrants will be required to type in a statement during registration to confirm with honesty they are indeed High School or K-12 Students.)
$2.95: (Online Only) AIAA Member - Other Categories
$5.95: (Online Only) Non-AIAA Member - Other Categories
$0 (No Charge): (Online Only) AIAA Life-Time Member
$0 (No Charge): (Online Only) AIAA Member with 20 or more years of membership
Contact: contact@aiaa-lalv.org if any questions. AIAA Los Angeles Website: https://www.aiaa-lalv.org, AIAA Membership: https://www.aiaa.org/membership
Thank you very much !