Our Instructors:

Aaron Komara:  Chief CFI                 

 

Aaron began flying taildraggers immediately after earning his private pilot's certificate and has been flying them ever since.  As a person  who has been around airplanes his entire life, has experience in several different types of taildraggers, ranging from a piper cub, up to the Lionheart. Aaron also has aerobatic experience in many different aircraft(Yak52, 8KCAB, 7KCAB, 7GCAA). Aaron, being an accomplished pilot and skilled instructor with over 1000 hours of dual given, is enthusiastic and thrives on making everyone's flying experience exciting, fun and safe.

 

 

Rick (Rick) M. Stroud

Rick first soloed on June 15, 1957.  He's certified as a commercial pilot, single engine, multiengine land, and an instrument certified for single engine - CFI advanced ground instructor, single engine and multiengine land, and instrument Airplane

Certificated Flight Instructor: Airplane, Instrument

Certificated Ground Instructor: Advanced

Total Hours: 8600 Hours

Flight Instruction Given: 3700 Hours

 

Aircraft Flown Regularly: Piper Twin Comanche, 210 HP Globe Swift, 145 HP TEMCO Swift, Starduster Too, Beechcraft Bonanza V35B, Aeronca Champ 7AC, 150 HP Cessna 150, Cessna 170, Cessna 182

 

Education:

BS Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas Arlington, 1972

MS Computer Science, Kansas State University, 1976

 

Work History: U. S. Army, 20 Years, Field Artillery, Teledyne Brown Engineering, 24 Years,

 

Danny Gable & his PA - 11

 

 

 

 

 

Joe McKay

 

Joe was born in Jackson, Mississippi.  He flew only once before he was 17 in the back of a Cessna 172.  The next time he flew, he was taking flight training at Bruce Campbell Field, Jackson, Ms. and soloed at 4.5 hours, got 15 hours total before he left for Mississippi State University, to major in Aerospace Engineering.

His next flight was in a bamboo and plastic hang glider that he built before he left high school.  It flew!  Read the rest of Joe's bio...

 

Carlton Bailey

bio coming soon!