OFA 161 – Robert A. (Bob) Balslev is an Aviation and Marine Adjuster in our San Diego, California office. He holds a Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana Insurance Adjuster licenses. Bob is a US Air Force Command Pilot and an FAA Airline Transport Pilot. After active duty service with the US Air Force as an F-105 Thunderchief pilot, he joined the California Air National Guard where he flew the O-2A/B Skymaster, various models of the F-4 Phantom II and the KC-135A/C/D/R Stratotanker. He retired as a Lieutenant Colonel while serving as the 163rd Operations Group Commander and an Instructor Pilot in the Group’s KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft. During his civilian career, Bob worked for several major defense contractors. He is a graduate of numerous military accident investigation courses for aviation and ground vehicles. He has been involved in investigation of aviation accidents since 1979. He has been a US Air Force accident board investigating officer and pilot member. Bob currently has approximately 5,000 hours total flight time in a wide variety of aircraft. Bob has been with our firm since 2006.

Arnold and Arnold, Inc. is a small firm with an emphasis on quality, results and costs that has been in business over 40 years. With thirty-seven operating locations nationwide, we are licensed adjusters, surveyors and investigators; we currently have fifty-one employees consisting of forty-nine adjuster/investigators/surveyors and seven secretarial and support staff

Our aviation department handles many different categories of losses; light and medium helicopter accidents, the full range of general aviation claims, air carrier and agricultural chemical application claims, as well as other specialized areas, including manned and unmanned surveillance platforms, high performance and military type aircraft.

Our loss prevention and evaluation department does underwriting evaluations and auditing of Aviation, Marine and CGL risks and claims handling, as well as investigating and assessing E&O claims. We provide operational evaluations of all categories of risks with special emphasis on aviation and marine operators. We have several active safety programs for small tug and barge operators. We teach classes, perform safety audits and assistance visits for many aircraft operators and organizations, including remote airline operators.