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Bombardier Aerospace Employee Receives Prestigious Aviation Award

Written by thomas · Filed Under Aeronautics News 

May 20, 2009

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(CASI) awarded Larry Dufraimont, Director of Flight Test and Flight    Operations  at Bombardier’s
Flight Test Centre in Wichita, Kansas, the prestigious Trans-Canada Trophy, the oldest aviation
award in Canada. Mr. Dufraimont received this award for his outstanding achievements in the
field of air operations.
At Bombardier Aerospace, Mr. Dufraimont leads a multi-discipline team in the modification and
instrumentation of test aircraft and in the planning and execution of flight testing for all
Bombardier Aerospace business jets and regional aircraft. He worked at the company from
1993 (then de Havilland) to 1997, returning in 2000.
Mr. Dufraimont began his career with the Canadian Air Force, where he had the opportunity to
fly 36 aircraft types as a T-33 and CF-5 Instructor Pilot, VIP Transport Pilot and Qualified Test
Pilot. Highlights from his 23-year career in the military were his graduation from the UK Empire
Test Pilot School and the ten years he spent as a Qualified Test Pilot with the Canadian Military
Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment (AETE) flying numerous fighter and transport
aircraft including the de Havilland Augmentor Wing Powered Lift Research aircraft which he flew
for NASA. He retired from the Air Force as a Lt. Colonel having served in several leadership
positions over his career.
Mr. Dufraimont moved on to civil aviation, where he has spent 19 years in the Canadian and
U.S. aerospace industry. He has held many leadership positions in Flight Test, Ground Test,
Program Management and Engineering for Bombardier Aerospace, Rockwell Collins and
Boeing.
The TransCanada
Trophy, also known as the McKee Trophy, was established in 1927 by
Captain J. Dalzell McKee. In 1926, Mr. McKee, of Pittsburgh, Penn., accompanied by Squadron
Leader Earl Godfrey of the RCAF, flew from Montreal to Vancouver in a Douglas MO2B
seaplane. McKee was so impressed by the services provided by the RCAF and the Ontario
Provincial Air Service, that he set up an endowment by means of which the greatly coveted
McKee Trophy is awarded to the Canadian whose achievements were most outstanding in
promoting aviation in Canada

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