Jay Baldwin , CFI A&G

Jay has spent over thirty years in aviation. He earned a glider rating 1971, got his Air Force Pilot wings in 1975 and spent the rest of the '70s instructing in T-37 military trainers. On his days off, he managed a glider operation, towedwith Maules, and instructed in Cherokee Arrows. In the '80s he flew T-33s and F106 for the Montana Air Guard and in the '90s transitioned to F-16s and flew Boeing 747s for Northwest Airlines. In 1997, he moved to the aviation center of the world (Alaska) hoping to employ a bush instructor to show him the nuances of Alaska flying. To his dismay, he learned that to become a bushpilot you had to buy an aircraft, wreck several times and if you were still alive you could claim the title. Drawing from his prior experience, he wrote a syllabus and started training students in off-field operations. An avid hunter, Jay has flown his Cub into high mountain strips in the Wrangles, onto glaciers in the Kenai, beaches on Kodiak and the pack ice of the Bering Sea. Each year he takes one or two students from scratch and trains them in the bush. However, the majority of his clients are rated pilots, young and old, that are seeking off-field instruction to improve their skills and survivability in this hostile environment.

Sandy Baldwin, Scheduler / Chief C+BW

Sandy, though not rated, has logged hundreds of hours in both seats of the Super Cub. She has flown on every Iditarod expedition since 1998, exercised our overnight survival gear to 25 below and camped with the brown bears on remote beaches. She is a transplanted Texan, that has been slowly dragged northward over her married life. She is a mother of 5, grandmother of four and friend of all. She is a great cook, office manager and has tolerated marriage to a fighter pilot / bush instructor for 23 years. She has watched a teenage son cut his teeth on bush flying. She is the only reason we can be Cub Training Specialists because Sandy does everything else.

Steve Baldwin , CFI & Tour Guide

Steve started his flying career in the Alaska bush. Trained from scratch on gravel bars and frozen lakes, he soloed on his 16th birthday, he spent a year flying his first and only legal passenger, Moses (his dog), to hunting and fishing camps all over south central Alaska. On his 17th birthday he started carrying friends and family to all his secret fishing spots. More recently he has worked as safety pilot surveying every state owned airstrips from Barrow to Dillingham. He is an aviation management major at UAA and an aircraft fabrication specialists for the Alaska Air Guard.