Vicky Benzing Aerosports

About Vicky Benzing

Vicky Benzing is a pilot, skydiver, aerobatic performer and air racer. She has over 10,000 hours of flight time and over 1,300 parachute jumps. She holds commercial ratings in helicopters, seaplanes and gliders. Vicky has also flown over 50 different types of aircraft.

She took a brief break from aerobatic flying to each her PhD in Chemistry and began working in the Silicon Valley high tech industry.  Vicky returned to aerobatic flying in 2005. She began competing and performing at air shows. She later started air racing and has flown in the Sport, Jet and Unlimited Class at the National Championship Air Races.  Today, Vicky flies at air shows across the country in her P-51 “Plum Crazy” and her 1940 Boeing Stearman.

About the 1940 Boeing Stearman

This aircraft used as a military trainer during WWII and served at bases in Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama. After the war ended, the aircraft was moved to Eagle Field and later sold.

It was used as a crop duster until 1973, when it was disassembled and put into storage. It sat there until 1990, when it was taken out of storage and restored to a standard acrobatic aircraft. Vicky purchased this aircraft in 1998 and has been flying it ever since.

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