Scott Drennan

Scott Drennan serves as director of Bell’s Innovation team. Scott earned a BS is Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland and a Masters of Liberal Arts from Southern Methodist University.

He joined Bell on the V-22 program. He has spent most of his career at Bell focused on tiltrotors and other power-lift vehicle technologies.

Scott joined the ranks of Bell’s engineering management team in 2011 while in the middle of an 8-year assignment in Italy supporting the Leonardo-Bell partnership on the 609 program. Recent positions include director & chief engineer of the Bell 609 program and director of Air Vehicle Integration.

Today, Scott is proud to carry on Bell’s rich tradition of innovation as a leader in Bell’s innovation community. The Innovation team’s mission is to radically innovate technologies and aircraft configurations in order to create novel and coveted vehicle lift experiences.

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