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his last company in 2020 and has been spending time since 2021 as a contract pilot, flying various King Airs, Cessna Citations and other aircraft types.
He uses his King Air E90, which is based at Addison Airport (KADS), for beach and mountain vacations, and he flies often to upstate New York, where his kids are attending Colgate University. Johnson and his wife Kelly met while attending Colgate where they were both athletes on the track and field team in the 1990s.
“I’m also on the Board of Trustees at Colgate and use my King Air to travel both to Hamilton, New York, and other locations for board meetings,” he said. “Getting to upstate New York from Texas is not the easiest thing in the world, so having our King Air makes those trips much easier and faster. In fact, I hold the FAI world record for the Dallas to Syracuse flight in the King Air’s weight class.” (FAI, the World Air Sports Federation, is the world governing body for air sports and for certifying world aviation and space records.)
He said he flies the King Air about 175 hours a year and adds another 50 hours in the 2006 American Champion Citabria he owns. Additionally, he is a partner and airshow demonstration pilot in the Trojan Phlyers (thetrojanphlyers. com), a Dallas-based group of aviation professionals preserving the history of the North American Aviation Company’s T-28 Trojan by performing formation and solo aerobatics with two 1953 T-28B Trojans at air shows and events across the country. The Phlyers were invited to perform at Oshkosh in July 2022 and Johnson calls it “a highlight of my airshow career!”
The most rewarding flying of his career, though, remains the philanthropic flights he makes on behalf of Operation Airdrop and Veterans Airlift Command (VAC).
VAC provides free air transporta- tion to post 9/11 combat wounded
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“The most rewarding flying of his career, though, remains the philanthropic flights he makes on behalf of Operation Airdrop and Veterans Airlift Command (VAC).”
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