DAN SWEET/HAI


Stacy Sheard


All In for HAI


Incoming HAI chair focuses on coming together to overcome challenges.


By Jen Boyer


Opposite page, top left: As a UH-60 Black Hawk pilot,


Stacy was assigned to Fort Irwin,


California, where she provided desert


training to US Army forces.


C 26 ROTOR 2020 Q3


ORPORATE HELICOPTER CAPTAIN STACY SHEARD BEGAN HER ONE-YEAR TERM AS CHAIR of Helicopter Association International on Jul 1, 2020. Her interest in helicopters as a young girl sparked an aviation career that has taken her around the world, preparing her to represent a global industry as it navigates its way back from the COVID-19 pandemic. Stacy’s imagination was first captured by helicopters while growing up in Clovis, California, a small


agricultural town at the base of the Sierra Nevadas. Every spring and summer, helicopters flew from the nearby Fresno Air Terminal to the mountains, drawing her eyes skyward. “I was about 11 or 12 when I really started taking notice,” she recalls. “Tey were always flying by to fight fires, and I


thought, ‘Wow, I want to do that!’ Te show Airwolf was on TV about that time too. Tat was a huge part of growing up and really inspired me. I loved that show and helicopter.” It was the early 1980s, and flight schools were few and far between. Te money needed to learn to fly was even harder


to come by. Undeterred, a young Stacy rode her bike to the Fresno Air Terminal (since 1996 the Fresno Yosemite International Airport, KFAT) and offered to sweep hangar floors at Rogers Helicopters as a way to be around the machines and learn more. Te helicopter operator declined her offer.


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