Pilot Lounge: Interview with Antonina Shevchenko

Antonina Shevchenko is an accomplished UFC fighter and commercial pilot. She grew up in Kyrgyzstan, where she fell in love with aviation through the books of Antoine de St. Exupéry and Richard Bach. She came to the United States about six years ago for her professional fighting career and began flight lessons in late 2018. In the past four years, she earned her private, commercial single- and multi- engine certificates and instrument rating, and she recently qualified as a first officer in the Pilatus PC-12 for charter operator Tradewind Aviation.
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