Appointment of New Director at the DCA of Aruba
Published on February 9, 2015
The Registry of Aruba is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. ing. Edwin F. Kelly as the new Director of the DCA of Aruba, the appointment was made official on the 1st of December 2014; assuming his position effective immediately. Mr. ing. Edwin F. Kelly earned his Aeronautical Engineering degree in 1993 in The Netherlands. He continued his studies and earned a degree in Aircraft Operations Science. Furthermore he successfully completed the module “Aviation law” at the Leiden University and the module “Air Transportation Science” at the Technical University of Delft. In 2005 he graduated from the Aruban Pedagogical Academy, earning his qualifications as teacher at the high school level.,and recently has obtained his Master in Business Administration (MBA) at the University of Aruba. Mr. ing. Edwin F. Kelly worked for 6 months at the Rijksluchtvaartdienst (Dutch CAA) and has worked for over 20 years at the Department of Civil Aviation of Aruba, whereby he started as Airworthiness Inspector. After that he becoming the Manager of the Airworthiness & Registration Department and later on formed part of the Management Team, which would then lead to his succession as the Director of the DCA of Aruba. He was part of the start up of the foreign aircraft registration project in 1995 and one of the drivers of the recent re-branding and re-launching of the Aruban aircraft registry early 2014.Moreover,Mr.ing.Edwin F. Kelly was part of the team that succeeded in obtaining FAA Category 1 rating for Aruba in 1996, and was part of different ICAO article 83bis negotiations.
