Steve Watkins

Steve was raised on a family farm near the Colorado river area in Western Arizona. His love of flight began when seeing his father’s friends crop dusting fields near their farm. As time went on Steve finally had the opportunity to pursue his dreams of flight and started his helicopter training in 2003 at Quantum Helicopters in Chandler AZ. Steve worked his way through the program receiving Commercial, CFI and CFII ratings. After flight instruction Steve started working up the commercial ladder, flying tours at the Grand Canyon, then EMS in the Phoenix Metro area and then onto a 12-year career flying News in the Phoenix Valley for Fox 10, ABC 15 and TV3. Steve has more than 20 years of commercial flying experience overall. Logging a total of 8500 + hours of rotorcraft flight time.