Longtime Scheduler Fred Barth to Receive Recognition At
Schedulers & Dispatchers Conference
The NBAA will recognize Fred Barth, a past chairman and founding
member of the NBAA Schedulers & Dispatchers (S&D)
Committee, with the Association's 2012 Schedulers & Dispatchers
Outstanding Achievement & Leadership Award. Created in 2008,
the award recognizes individuals who have shared their outstanding
business aviation industry expertise, provided extraordinary
service, exhibited leadership and made significant contributions to
the scheduling and dispatching function.
Barth, best remembered in the industry as the longtime flight
operations control manager of AT&T's Aviation Division, was
born and raised in Bethpage, NY and grew up the son of a Grumman
Aircraft family. In 1968, he joined the U.S. Air Force, and, in
1972, after a tour of duty in Vietnam, he was assigned to a
strategic air command base in Michigan, working in base
operations-dispatch.
In 1973, he joined Executive Air Fleet (current Jet Aviation
Business Jets) in Teterboro, NJ as a flight coordinator. In the
next four years, he managed FAR Part 91 and 135 charter aircraft of
Fortune 500 companies as well as earning his Associate of Arts
degree. In 1977, he left Executive Air Fleet and began a 27-year
commitment as the flight operations control manager of AT&T's
Aviation Division out of Morristown, NJ. In 2004, Barth retired
from AT&T but within months began to work again as a consultant
and account manager to Wyvern Ltd. In 2008, he joined The Flight
Department USA, working part-time as a flight operations specialist
and transportation coordinator
Barth used his professional knowledge and skills as a ham radio
operator to volunteer with the American Red Cross as an amateur
radio emergency communications coordinator, deploying to the Gulf
Coast for Hurricane Katrina. He provided volunteer support again in
2010 when he assisted CARE as a flights operations coordinator
during the Haiti earthquake relief effort.
Now retired, Barth is a member of the Vernon, NJ Township Office
of Emergency Management, American Radio League and Sussex Airport
(NJ) Steering Committee–Sussex Co. Economic Development
Partnership. He holds licenses as an FAA aircraft dispatcher,
private pilot, and FCC amateur extra class. Currently, he resides
in Vernon, NJ with his wife Janice. Today his main job is as
grandfather and mentor to four-year-old Jackson, who is being
schooled in all things airplane and ham radio, plus the occasional
Lionel train.
Although Barth is unable to accept his award in person, his
achievements will be recognized during the NBAA 23rd Annual
Schedulers & Dispatchers Conference, to be held from January 15
to 18, 2012, at the San Diego Convention Center.