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Pilot Biography

As a Co-Host for a popular syndicated TV Show, MayCay Beeler learned to fly for a television assignment. In a promotion to encourage viewers to follow in MayCay’s footsteps, General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) gave her the opportunity to fly free through first solo, in exchange for television coverage. Little did GAMA know that MayCay would eventually go on to earn her Airline Transport Pilot Certificate and become a world record-breaking pilot.

As an award-winning journalist, MayCay has produced many national TV features on aviation. They include flying with General Chuck Yeager, Voyager pilots Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager; competing in a transcontinental air race; skydiving with the Navy Seals; and flying mock air combat over Southern California. Recently, MayCay covered the great Cross-Canada Centennial of Flight 2009 International Air Rally as a Pilot/Journalist.

MayCay is a Flight Instructor (CFII) and an FAA Aviation Safety Counselor. She is the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association’s (AOPA) Airport Support Network (ASN) volunteer for Greensboro, North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad International Airport. In 2002, MayCay was named FAA Aviation Safety Counselor of the Year for the Southern United States. For over a decade, she has served as a volunteer flight instructor at the annual area WINGS WEEKEND pilot proficiency safety program. She has emceed pilot appreciation banquets and local air shows.

On 9-11, after the attacks on America, MayCay appeared on-camera as an aviation consultant in newscasts on WXII-TV, the local NBC-TV network affiliate in Winston-Salem, NC.

MayCay has joined forces with the FAA to host local safety events, including one featuring the Airport Watch Program. There pilots learn to protect their home airports from terrorism. Combining her passion for aviation with her journalism expertise, MayCay spreads the good news about General Aviation through newscasts, programs and reports. She appears as the on-camera host in “121.5”, a popular video on pilot/controller emergency communications. MayCay also hosts various FAA and AOPA Air Safety Foundation pilot videos including “Maneuvering Flight”. She has appeared in national TV commercials for the “Be-A-Pilot” Campaign. In 2009, she appears in the pilot for a new aviation reality TV Series.

As an aviation journalist, MayCay recently piloted two crash survivors back to the Bahamian island that nearly stole their lives two decades ago. This compelling adventure is documented in her article “Return to Norman’s Cay”. It appears in the April 2004 edition of the world’s most widely read flying magazine: AOPA PILOT. Her TV Documentary by the same name is available at amazon.com. Norman’s Cay is portrayed in the movie BLOW starring Johnny Depp.

MayCay has served as a past Chapter Chairman, Aerospace Education Chairman and News Reporter for the Kitty Hawk 99s, The International Organization of Women Pilots. She has represented AOPA, the world’s largest civilian pilot organization, as an Air Safety Foundation Instructor, teaching seminars nationwide. Formally, MayCay has served as a Part 135 Piedmont Charter Pilot. She was an applicant in NASA’s Journalist-in-Space Project, and a recipient of the Judy Resnick Aviation Scholarship. She has undergone regional jet airline pilot training.

MayCay has worked as a General Aviation Consultant to the designer of the exciting new HondaJet by helping coordinate the world debut flight of the jet at the AirVenture '05 Oshkosh Air Show.

MayCay says she loves flight instructing and flying passengers because it is a privilege to share the joy of flight with others. Come fly with her in the new state-of-the-art Liberty XL-2 aircraft. This single engine sporty light plane is touted as the world’s most advanced 2-seat piston aircraft. Come take a Discovery Flight! See flytaa.com. When not flying the airways, MayCay can be seen on the airwaves as an occasional TV Show Host and Spokeswoman in TV Commercials.