Matt Shidler: Chief Pilot | CFI, CFII, MEI
Georgetown
Matt has been a flight instructor for the past 5 years and flying for over 9. In 2009 he graduated from Indiana State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Professional Aviation Flight Technology.
Matt has logged 2700 flight hours of which 2000 are instruction given. He also has experience as a corporate pilot flying throughout the United States and Canada in both a Cessna 414 and a Piaggio P180 Avantii. Matt enjoys passing the knowledge and experience that he has gained on to his students and seeing them succeed.
Jonathan Boes: CFI, CFII
Georgetown
Jonathan has been flying for over 10 years. He received his bachelors degree in Aviation Management and an associates degree in General Aviation Flight Technology in 2014 from Indiana State University.
Jonathan not only has a passion for flying but a desire to teach and mold students into safe proficient pilots. When not flying he enjoys playing guitar and singing in past time as well as enjoying outdoor activities like camping and kayaking.
Kellen Martin: CFI, CFII, MEI
Georgetown – Austin
Kellen began showing interest in aviation at the age of 6 when he went with his family to an airshow at the Eugene Airport (KEUG) and was hooked after seeing the Blue Angels fly. In high school he took an aeronautics class for his Junior and Senior year and had the opportunity to fly in an EAA award winning Vans RV-6 with his aeronautics instructor. This flight only fueled his passion for flight. In 2012 he began flying and earned an Associates Degree in Flight Technology from Lane Community College. While in college he worked as an intern at the KEUG tower and Cascade TRACON where he saw first hand the inner workings of ATC.
Kellen has an incredible passion for teaching and has enjoyed every minute of flight instructing. Some of his hobbies outside of aviation include trap shooting, long distance shooting and handgun shooting. He is a avid fisherman and hunter. When at home in Oregon, he restored wooden drift boats, one of which will be in the Wooden Boat Festival on the McKenzie River.
Tim Tutor: ATP, CFI, CFII, IGI
Georgetown
Following an eighteen-year hiatus, during which time he earned a graduate degree and taught in a private school and a university, Tim has returned to aviation. Tim’s previous flying experience includes work in flight instruction, a commuter airline, corporate aviation, several air ambulance services, and air freight operations. Tim’s extra-flying interests include textual criticism of ancient manuscripts, semi-annual camping trips with the men in his family, reading, shooting, good conversation, the U. S. Constitution and the U. S. S. Constitution and tinkering with his Astro van.
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