Chuck Aaron ✓

About Chuck Aaron

Charles "Chuck" Aaron is an American pilot notable for being one of a handful of pilots holding an FAA waiver to perform aerobatics in a helicopter in the United States, and one of only four such pilots in the entire world. In 1980, Aaron worked on the air rescue program for NASA's Space Shuttle, and he founded his own company, FX Helicopters in Westlake Village, California in 1997. Aaron announced his retirement from the airshow circuit in 2015 and made his last performance for Red Bull at the November 2015 Red Bull Air Race World Championship in Las Vegas. Chuck Aaron travels around the world as a keynote and aviation speaker, and was recently interviewed at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.