The North Texas Chapter was founded in the summer of 1969. North Texas hosts many prominent aerospace companies, including Lockheed Martin, Bell Helicopter, Vought, Northrop Grumman, Gulfstream, Raytheon, L3, American Eurocopter, and Sikorsky. The North Texas Chapter is proud to support the student chapter at Texas Agricultural & Mechanical.

The Society of Flight Test Engineers is a fraternity of engineers, whose principal professional interest is the flight testing of aerospace vehicles. The objective of the Society is the advancement of flight test engineering throughout the aerospace industry by providing technical and fraternal communication among individuals, both domestic and international, in the allied engineering fields of test operations, analysis, instrumentation and data systems.