Jan Collmer’s signature snap roll after take off will set the mood as he wows the crowd. During the air show routine Jan will put this incredible aircraft through its paces including loops, rolls, lomcevaks, torque rolls, knife edge passes and the crowd’s favorite: his famous tail slide. Jan climbs the airplane straight up until it stops. It then hangs by its propeller until the nose drops down into a screaming dive.
Living close to Love Field in Dallas as a child, Jan’s love for aviation evolved as he watched B-17’s, B-25’s, B-24’s, P-47’s and P-40’s flying in and out of the airport. A movie on Navy aviation captured his love in aviation in High School. He received his initiation into flying as a Navy NAVCAD in Pensacola in 1954 and earned his wings in NAS Corpus Christi.
Jan is a native of Dallas, Texas and is president and CEO of Collmer Semiconductor Inc., a $50 million-a-year high-tech electronics company that employs about 120 people. Mr. Collmer is also president of the Frontiers of Flight Museum at Dallas Love Field, which he co-founded with Mr. Cooper and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
“Flying, I love everything about it and have as much fun flying today as I did on my first flight in 1954.”
Jan is a man with a great sense of humor and is a very gracious pilot who is only there because of his true love of aviation. He is a true mentor in the aviation world.
Here's a brief view of what you can expect from Jan's flying:
