Landon Burgess
USAF
Benton
18
years of professional experience
Accomplished U.S. Air Force senior enlisted leader with 18 years in aircraft maintenance and operations for B-52H, KC-135, and E-8C fleets. Led maintenance production, workforce development, and logistics coordination, enhancing operational readiness and technical compliance. Delivered significant reductions in aircraft downtime and costs while effectively advising senior leaders on operational risk.
Work History
B-52 Maintenance Flight Chief
1 Year 4 Months- Directed daily B-52H schedule and unscheduled maintenance activities, aligning manpower, equipment, facilities, and production priorities with operational requirements.
- Led approximately 60 military maintenance professionals across multiple aircraft specialties while developing supervisors, strengthening technical proficiency, and enforcing accountability.
- Coordinated phase inspections, major component replacements, aircraft modifications, troubleshooting, and regeneration efforts with operations, engineering, supply, quality assurance, and supporting maintenance organizations.
- Collaborated with the Boston Consulting Group to redesign B-52 phase inspection processes, reducing the average inspection cycle from 38 to 32 days.
- Established key-task production gates and improved job standard packages, eliminating seven maintenance days per inspection and contributing to an 8% increase in aircraft availability.
- Helped implement processes adopted across two major commands and three bomb wings.
- Partnered with Boeing and the System Program Office to refine structural inspection work cards, removing 32 hours of redundant inspection requirements.
- Led technical-data improvements that reduced maintenance workload by approximately 400 labor hours and avoided $4.2 million in unnecessary costs.
- Briefed senior leaders on aircraft status, production risks, resource constraints, and recovery plans.
- Enforced technical-order, safety, documentation, and quality standards.
Aircraft Maintenance Manager
2 Years 5 Months- Evaluated maintenance readiness of strategic bomber and command-and-control fleets to ensure operational support for global strike missions.
- Analyzed aircraft availability, fleet-health trends, supply constraints, maintenance delays, and mission-limiting conditions.
- Integrated maintenance, logistics engineering, and operations data into readiness assessments for senior leaders.
- Coordinated with headquarters staffs, operational wings, logistics agencies, and maintenance organizations to resolve high-priority issues.
- Advised planners on aircraft availability, repair timelines, maintenance feasibility, and operational risk.
- Supported exercises, contingency operations, crisis-action planning, and strategic response requirements.
- Produced executive briefings translating technical conditions into mission impacts and recommended actions.
KC-135 Flying Crew Chief
3 Years 6 Months- Functioned as the primary maintenance representative supporting KC-135 aircraft during worldwide missions.
- Performed inspections, servicing, troubleshooting, repairs, launches, recoveries, and maintenance documentation.
- Diagnosed mechanical, hydraulic, electrical, pneumatic, fuel, environmental, and engine-related discrepancies.
- Coordinated support with aircrews, host installations, supply organizations, and maintenance control centers.
- Recovered aircraft from mission-limiting conditions in deployed and resource-constrained environments.
- Advised aircraft commanders on maintenance status, operational limitations, and mission risk.
- Managed aircraft records, technical compliance tools, support equipment, and replacement-part requirements.
E8-C Joint Stars Dedicated Crew Chief
10 Years 3 Months- Maintained the condition, reliability, and readiness of an assigned E8-C aircraft.
- Performed inspections, servicing, troubleshooting, repair, launch, recovery, and documentation activities.
- Coordinated maintenance with production supervisors, avionics specialists, supply personnel, engineers and depot organizations.
- Tracked recurring discrepancies and maintenance history to improve aircraft reliability.
- Ensured compliance with technical orders, configuration standards, safety requirements, and maintenance directives.
- Briefed aircrews and leaders on aircraft condition, limitations, and outstanding maintenance.
- Trained junior maintainers in aircraft systems, inspection procedures, and documentation.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Technical Management
- Senior Noncommissioned Officer Leadership
- Aircraft Maintenance Production Superintendent School
- Safety and Risk Management
- Continuous Process Improvement
- Deployed and Contingency Operations
Associate of Applied Science - Management
Skills
Aircraft Maintenance Management
Maintenance Production
Logistics Management
Operations Management
Process Improvement
Continuous Improvement
Aircraft Systems Management
Strategic Planning
Program Management
Defense Operations
Resource Management
Team Leadership
Security Clearance
TS / SCI
Timeline
B-52 Maintenance Flight Chief
USAF
03.2025 - CurrentRead More
Aircraft Maintenance Manager
Joint Global Strike Operations Center, Eigth Air Force
12.2022 - 05.2025Read More
KC-135 Flying Crew Chief
USAF
05.2019 - 11.2022Read More
E8-C Joint Stars Dedicated Crew Chief
USAF
01.2009 - 04.2019Read More
American Military University
Bachelor of Science from Technical Management
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Community College of The Air Force
Associate of Applied Science from Management
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