Ben VanBeusekom – Assistant Chief Flight Instructor
- Class 2 Flight Instructor
- Commercial Pilot Licence
- Multi Engine Rating
- 3,000+ hours flight experience
- 9 years teaching flying
Ben VanBeusekom is a Flight Instructor for Owen Sound Flight Services. His passion for flying started at the age of 12 when a Young Eagles flight took him off the Earth for the first time. Ben is a homegrown pilot, starting his flight training with OSFS when he was 19, and becoming a Flight Instructor at age 20.
Ben’s aviation experiences have take him across the country, and have included Survey Flying in Northern Quebec, Managing a Flight School in Toronto, Apprenticing as an Aviation Mechanic in Ottawa, and Teaching Flying all over Southern Ontario. If Ben is not in the air flying, or under an airplane assisting in aircraft maintenance, you will likely find him around the closest coffee pot, talking flying with others who share his passion.