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Doug Byrd is an aerobatic pilot and flying musician from the Washington DC area, using aviation to get young people to dare to dream.
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Doug Byrd started flight training at 16 through the East Coast Chapter Tuskegee Airmen's Youth in Aviation Program. He has flown eight sanctioned aerobatic competitions, plays bass, guitar and steelpan, and spends his time getting young people into cockpits and into the idea that they could want something bigger.
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Doug Byrd is an aerobatic pilot and flying musician from the Washington DC area. He did not grow up around airplanes. He grew up around a program that put him in one: the East Coast Chapter Tuskegee Airmen's Youth in Aviation Program, where he started flight training at 16, had a pilot's license at 17, and graduated in 2008. Between 2012 and 2021 he flew eight sanctioned aerobatic contests with the International Aerobatic Club, starting in Primary and working up to Intermediate in a borrowed Extra 300L. He paid for the flying himself, cutting grass, teaching guitar, and playing bass and steelpan at churches and clubs, and earned his commercial pilot certificate in September 2024. Today he trains the Intermediate sequence with Rob Dumovic at Spread Aviation, and spends the rest of his time getting young people into cockpits and into the idea that they could want something bigger.
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Photography
Inverted over the fields
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The end of the sequence
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With Michael Goulian at ICAS
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In the cockpit, Extra 300L
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The wing, in flight
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Cockpit, headset on
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With Scott Gorski
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The Extra 300L at sunset
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Certificate · ratings · training
Spec sheet
- Certificate
Commercial Pilot, issued September 2024.
- Ratings
Airplane Single-Engine Land, Airplane Multi-Engine Land, Instrument Airplane.
- Aerobatic background
Eight sanctioned contests with the International Aerobatic Club, 2012 to 2021.
Categories flown: Primary, Sportsman, Intermediate.
Statement of Aerobatic Competency: Not yet held.
- Aircraft flown
Borrowed airplanes, mostly the Extra 300L.
Types: Extra 300L, Extra 300, CAP 10, Super Decathlon.
- Current training
The Intermediate sequence with Rob Dumovic at Spread Aviation.
- Contact
byrdinspirationairshows.com/contact
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Video
Full sequence, uncut. Use it however you need.
Audio is engine and radio only. There are no spoken words.
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Logo and brand
Byrd Inspiration Airshows
It is spelled Inspiration. The domain and the TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook handles agree.
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