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Dan Johnson
Chairman of the Board/President
DAN JOHNSON has been called "the leading reviewer of light-sport aircraft."
He has evaluated more than 300 aircraft in many leading magazines including: EAA Sport Pilot, Light Sport & Ultralight Flying!, General Aviation News, Atlantic Flyer, Kitplanes, Experimenter, Ultraflight, and Sport Aviation. A 5,000-hour Commercial, Instrument, Multi-Engine Pilot and former Certified Flight Instructor, Dan's focus today is on Light-Sport Aircraft, ultralight aircraft, and homebuilt aircraft that Sport Pilots may fly.
Promoting aviation for more than 30 years, he is president of Dan Johnson Media Corp and of the LSA Marketing Group. These two enterprises provide marketing and media services to a select group of aviation businesses and to the industry. Since its launch in April, 2004, ByDanJohnson.com has become the Internet's largest source of pilot reports and Light-Sport Aircraft information.
Dan works closely with EAA and AOPA as those organizations provide leadership for Sport Pilot & Light-Sport Aircraft. He is President and Chairman of the Board of Directors for LAMA, the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association and serves as Membership Secretary on the LSA's F.37 Executive Committee for ASTM International.
Honored by the LSA industry, Dan was given the Minnesota Aviation Hall of Fame Writer Award (2007); LAMA's Outstanding Individual Award (2006); ASTM's Outstanding Leadership Award (2003); the Society of Experimental Test Pilots' Spirit of Flight Award (2001); and USUA's Moody Award (1999).
Dan hosted and narrated the FAA & EAA video, "First Flights in Your Ultralight / Lightplane." Two books plus two calendars have exclusively featured his flight reports and he is a regular speaker at airshows and aviation gatherings.