Pilot Profiles

Chuck Vincent
President
Ofc (337) 291-6501 24Hr (337) 291-6600
I believe that my experience and passion for aviation can make a difference in your flight requirements.

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Chuck Vincent brings over 38 years of corporate and airline flight experience to Eagle Air LLC. He has over 10000 hours in aircraft ranging from Piston Powered to Heavy Jet, and has broad experience in aerobatics to add another aspect of safety into standard flights.

If you are considering to purchase an aircraft, I would be happy to assist you in making the right choice, and I have the ability to help you support it after the sale.

I had a love for aviation long before I ever took my first lesson on July 27, 1971 on a grass strip in Houston call Genoa Field, but I never thought it would lead to a career. I figured all I was going to get to was to solo, so it goes to show you never know! I moved back to Lafayette, La. in 1972 which delayed me just a little, but I took my Private Pilot Check ride the same year on August 19, 1972. Shortly thereafter, I started on my commercial, multi Engine, and Instrument rating thanks to the G.I. Bill and in 1973 went to work for James Noel Flying Service, selling airplanes. I couldn’t believe I was flying for a living!

The seventies and eighties were filled with mixtures of aviation jobs, from flying Navajo’s, Cessna 185 amphibian, and Cheyenne’s, but what also came out of that period were lots of experience, and some great friendships. From the end of the eighties through January 19, 1991 I had a short career with Eastern Airlines on Boeing 757’s, and when what I thought of as being the pinnacle of my aviation career came to an end on that day January 19, 1991, and I was devastated. I spent a couple of years getting a small computer business kicked off, but in 1993 started flying part time for an air ambulance company until my own business requirements were too much. 1999 brought the first purchase of my own aircraft, a 1978 Beach Baron 58, and then traded for a 1980 Cheyenne II the following year, and then in 2005 I added a 1982 Citation 501. I was having a great time with aviation.

In 2002 I had tried my first aerobatics in a 1976 American Champion KCAB I had purchased, and in 2003 at the age of 59, purchased my first serious aerobatic aircraft, a bran new Extra 300L “N41CV”. Wow was all I could say! As I was shopping for a used Extra which I couldn’t find, an owner told me what I could expect when I had gotten one; “It will change you life forever”. It did!

I set out to teach myself aerobatics, which I will say at the onset; was and is the wrong way to do it. But, if you’re going to do it there is not a better aircraft to do it in than an Extra 300L. I read every book and watch every video I could get my hands on. Being 99% self taught is a long and difficult road to take. It will take you two to three times longer to get to a particular point self taught, as it will with instruction. I don’t think it’s any more dangerous, for all my practice is at 3000 to 5000 feet, it just takes a lot longer to get pass a lot of it without someone with experience there with you. I will say though, that I liked some parts better, because I could just work some things out on my own, at my own pace.

One year later after receiving my Extra 300, I got my first ACE card and started doing a few air shows. There again, all I could say is wow! What a rush! Three years later, and close to 300 hrs of aerobatics, (you do the math at 30 to 35 min per sortie) I was forced to quit for almost two years due to finances. As soon as I got my finances back, I was dreaming of flying aerobatics again, and bought another Citabria, but it couldn’t come close to feeding my desires. So in Dec of 2007 I bought my new ride, a new Extra 300L “N43CV”.

With this ride my aggression had grown, and I needed to spend some extra time in the books to work out some of the new stuff I wanted to do. All I can say is wow, and am I having lots of fun! I am one really lucky guy to be doing this!

ATP with approximately 10,000+ hrs
Multi Engine
Single Engine Sea
Rotorcraft
CE500 Type
ACE - Solo Aerobatics Extra 300L with 350+ hrs of Aerobatics

 

Eagle Air / Aerobatic Team

 

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chuckev@eagleairllc.com