4Kᵁᴴᴰ Luca Bertossio Glider SWIFT S1 LBX Vice World Champion Belgian Air Force BAF Days 2023

Luca Bertossio Glider SWIFT S1 LBX Vice World Champion
Belgian Air Force Days
The Pilot
Luca Bertossio (born January 24, 1990) is an Italian aerobatics pilot performing glider aerobatics as competitor for the Italian National Glider Aerobatic Team and as a professional Airshow pilot and Flight Instructor.

Bertossio is the first Italian to won 9 FAI Gold medals, 8 Silver and 4 Bronze FAI medals for the glider aerobatics discipline, and the titles of Advanced Vice-World Champion 2011 and Advanced World Champion of Glider’s Aerobatics in the 2012 WAGAC competition championship, World Air Games Champion 2015, Vice-World Games Champion 2017 and 3 Times Vice-World Overall Unlimited Champion 2015, 2018 and 2021. Bertossio's flight activity is based mainly at the National Italian Glider’s Aerobatic Centers of Ozzano nell'Emilia (BO) and in the past as an instructor at the International Glider Aerobatic Academy in Williams, CA (USA).

In the Italian aerobatics history Bertossio reached the best ever placement in the Unlimited category of the WGAC World Championship. He became Vice-World Champion 2015,2018 and 2021. He is the youngest ever World Air Games Champion 2015-Dubai.

In 2017, Bertossio also ranked second at The World Games.