William R. (Bill) Lange
Present Organization
ATP Compliance and Safety Solutions
Current Position
Vice President
General Background
With over 40 years of airline and aviation leadership experience, His career has
included senior corporate officer responsibilities for planning, operations control,
maintenance and technical operations, flight operations, training, and safety &
regulatory compliance for major and regional airlines, including Pan Am, World
Airways and Atlantic Coast Airlines/Independence Air. Between his Pan Am and
World airline assignments, he spent four years as EVP and COO of Jetstream
Aircraft, Inc., the US-based regional airliner sales and service arm of British
Aerospace, PLC. Most recently, Bill served as VP Safety & Compliance for
Compass Airlines, leading the initial ATOS certification Compass and being the
central force in establishing its industry-leading safety and regulatory compliance
culture.
In his 19 years at Pan Am, Bill held positions as Manager of Economic Analysis,
Director of Regulatory Planning, Director of Route Planning, System Director of
Scheduling, System Director of Operations Control, VP of Planning, and President
and COO of Pan Am Express, Pan Am’s wholly-owned regional carrier. In three
years at World Airways, he was EVP Operations and EVP Strategy & Corporate
Planning. During his six years at Atlantic Coast Airlines/Independence Air, Bill
held positions as SVP Technical Operations, SVP Maintenance & Operations, SVP
Operations Resources, and SVP Safety, Compliance & Security.
With undergraduate and graduate degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Bill has long been active in
Industry and Government forums aimed at ensuring that continuous improvements
are made to aviation safety and in regulatory compliance. Included among such
involvements have been: membership in the FAA Safety Management Focus
Group; active participation in a number of FAA Safety Management System (SMS)
forums; membership on the airline operations subcommittee of the FAA SMS ARC;
membership on the FAA First Officer Qualifications ARC as a representative of the
Regional Airline Association (RAA); writer/editor of the RAA comments submitted
to the docket for the FAA Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Flightcrew Member
Duty and Rest Requirements; and leadership involvement on behalf of the RAA in
recent Industry Fatigue Risk Management Plan Forums.
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Professional Experience
Throughout both his long airline industry career and his current consulting practice,
Bill has very effectively developed himself to be a recognized bridge between the
technologies and processes entailed in aviation and aviation safety and the
business and regulatory aspects leading to safe and economically successful
airline operations. In each of his professional positions and consulting
assignments, he has been brought in as both a “problem identifier/solver” and a
“change agent/manager”, having been specifically selected to determine the
blockages preventing success, develop and implement solutions to those
blockages, and educate and sell the organization’s leaders and employees alike
on how their embracing those solutions will lead to success. The Safety and
Regulatory Compliance Cultures of Compass Airlines and, before that, of
Independence Air are testaments to Bill’s ability to establish high standards, to
develop and implement the tools and processes that will meet those high
standards, to educate management and employees alike in how they can and why
they should achieve those standards, and to share the credit with them and the
collective excitement when they do.
Operating Systems/Tools
Programming Languages/
Databases/Hardware
ATP-CASS ICAP
ATP-CASS Professional Services
Continuing Analysis and Surveillance System
FAA W-BAT (Web-Based Application Tool) Safety Data Collection Tool
Education
Professional Memberships
Certification
 S.B. Aeronautics & Astronautics, MIT
 S.M. Aeronautics & Astronautics, MIT
 Engineer of Aeronautics & Astronautics, MIT
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