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About MayCay

MayCay Beeler is a vivacious American world record breaking pilot, award-winning TV Personality, FAA Certified Flight Instructor, dynamic veteran journalist with a passion for all things flying. She is a champion of aviation who takes great pride in shouting that a woman's place is in the cockpit.

MayCay was born in our Nation's Capitol and grew up in the Washington Metropolitan area. After a brief stint as a Cowgirl working summer jobs in Wyoming, attending Montana State University, and graduating from the University of Kentucky, MayCay found her niche on the small screen and in the big sky. Her professional broadcasting career began as a Co-Host for the popular syndicated TV show PM MAGAZINE at WATE-TV, the ABC affiliate in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her flying career took flight from these same roots.

While MayCay has worked for every major TV Network affiliate as on-camera talent in News and Entertainment, she is best known in the Carolinas for her TV appearances on PM MAGAZINE at WFMY-TV CBS in Greensboro. In addition, MayCay has anchored and reported TV News for Charlotte area stations including CableNews2/WBTV, and WCCB-TV FOX 18. Readers of a local newspaper there named MayCay their "Favorite TV/Radio Personality" in an area "Best of" poll. MayCay has worked as TV News Weather Anchor for the ABC and NBC-TV network affiliates in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She appears as Show Host in popular aviation videos, FAA Safety programs, and is featured in a pilot for a new TV Series.

Currently, MayCay's work includes hosting/writing/producing half hour prime time TV Special Shows for CBS affiliate WFMY NEWS 2. One of her favorite TV productions, The 2009 Summer Fun Guide, was nominated for an Emmy. In 2010 and 2011, MayCay represented the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) as their news anchor for AOPA LIVE, covering AOPA's Aviation Summit in Long Beach, CA and Hartford, CT. AOPA is the nation's largest pilot organization. MayCay continues to appear as spokesperson in TV Commercials, and on the print side of her journalism career, is a contributing writer for various publications including Natural Triad Magazine.

MayCay's knowledge of weather comes first hand from her flying experience. She is a licensed Commercial Pilot, Airline Transport Pilot, and FAA Certified Flight Instructor. She holds world aviation records in the experimental Questair Venture. Previously, MayCay was named FAA Aviation Safety Counselor of the Year for the Southern United States. She is an active member and former Chapter Chairman of The Kitty Hawk Ninety-Nines, The International Organization of Women Pilots. MayCay represents Greensboro, North Carolina's Piedmont Triad International Airport as the AOPA Airport Support Network volunteer. Additionally, she has served as an AOPA seminar pilot instructor traveling the country for the Air Safety Foundation. MayCay is a former charter pilot and applicant in NASA's Journalist-in-Space Project. A champion of aviation, Beeler spreads the good word about flying through various reports and programs.

As an award-winning journalist, MayCay has produced many national TV features on aviation, including flying with General Chuck Yeager and the Voyager Crew. Her many adventures in television include initially learning to fly for a TV assignment, competing in an all-women's transcontinental air race, skydiving with the Navy Seals, and flying mock air combat over Southern California. In addition, as an aviation journalist, MayCay recently piloted two crash survivors back to the Bahamian island that, decades ago, nearly claimed their lives. Her account of this compelling true story featuring a legendary drug lord appears in the April 2004 edition of AOPA PILOT magazine, the world's most widely read flying publication. Her TV Documentary on this subject, "Return to Norman's Cay", is available on amazon.com. Norman's Cay was portrayed in the movie, BLOW, starring Johnny Depp.

MayCay's numerous TV celebrity interviews include Mel Gibson and Oprah. On 9-11, MayCay appeared as an on-camera aviation consultant for WXII-TV, the NBC-TV affiliate in Winston-Salem, NC. In addition to her aviation, TV journalism, and motherhood careers, MayCay is an actress and spokesperson who has appeared in hundreds of TV commercials spanning local to national coverage. She has traveled the world for her television work.

MayCay loves flight instructing and flying passengers because she says it is a privilege to share the joy and magic of flight with others. When not flying the airways, MayCay can be seen on the airwaves as a freelance TV Show Host and Commercial Spokeswoman.