Join us for our upcoming General Aviation Committee meeting where Tom Chandler with AOPA will share a presentation and interaction on perspectives of AOPA with current and future 2025 issues and priorities. 

SPEAKERS

Tom Chandler, Regional Manager - Central Southwest – AOPA

Tom has been immersed in general aviation since a very young age. He earned his private pilot certificate while in high school, followed by a degree in Aviation Management from Wichita State University, along with ATP and CFII certificates. His professional flying career got rolling with a decade of flying air ambulance and charter King Airs for Midwest Corporate Aviation out of Wichita’s Jabara Airport. He then worked for 8 years as the Airport Manager in McPherson, Kansas, while mixing in some corporate flying and instruction. During that time, he also served as the president of the Kansas Association of Airports and secretary of the Kansas Commission on Aerospace Education. Tom has been the AOPA Regional Manager - Central Southwest for eight years and currently resides in Heath, Texas.