Tamarack Aerospace Group CEO and leadership

Guida is a degreed aerospace engineer with over 25 years of applied experience in the development of certified aerospace products. He was a Designated Engineering Representative (DER) of the Federal Aviation Administration with the unique skill-sets of being authorized to show compliance in four separate areas of engineering (Structures, Loads, Damage Tolerance, and Fatigue). Mr. Guida is delegated by the FAA to analyze and review airplanes and aftermarket airplane products for certification, including aftermarket winglet development. Mr. Guida’s extensive aerospace experience was earned through positions of increasing responsibility with several major OEMs including Boeing, Pilatus, Aviat, Eclipse, and Quest Aircraft Companies. He founded his own consulting company in 2004, where he brought his expertise and unique four areas of DER certification to projects with Spectrum, Raytheon, SNC, API, Falcon, Hawker Beech, BLR, and more. Mr. Guida holds numerous patents and has several patents pending. He was a competitive aerobatics pilot, and is a flight test pilot, holding jet aircraft type ratings for Cessna Citation Jets and the Embraer Phenom 100.

Nathan Cropper is a Chief Engineer at Tamarack Aerospace Group, Inc. and Engineering Program Manager at Tamarack Aerospace Group, Inc. and is based in Sandpoint, Idaho. He has worked as Engineering Manager at Quest Aircraft Company and Mechanical Engineer at Quest Aircraft Company. Nathan attended University of Idaho between 2002 and 2007.

Guida is a degreed aerospace engineer with over 25 years of applied experience in the development of certified aerospace products. He was a Designated Engineering Representative (DER) of the Federal Aviation Administration with the unique skill-sets of being authorized to show compliance in four separate areas of engineering (Structures, Loads, Damage Tolerance, and Fatigue). Mr. Guida is delegated by the FAA to analyze and review airplanes and aftermarket airplane products for certification, including aftermarket winglet development. Mr. Guida’s extensive aerospace experience was earned through positions of increasing responsibility with several major OEMs including Boeing, Pilatus, Aviat, Eclipse, and Quest Aircraft Companies. He founded his own consulting company in 2004, where he brought his expertise and unique four areas of DER certification to projects with Spectrum, Raytheon, SNC, API, Falcon, Hawker Beech, BLR, and more. Mr. Guida holds numerous patents and has several patents pending. He was a competitive aerobatics pilot, and is a flight test pilot, holding jet aircraft type ratings for Cessna Citation Jets and the Embraer Phenom 100.