Trevor Rafferty

Trevor has never known a life without aviation, his earliest memories are of flying with his father in a Piper Cub and Aeronca Champ Aircraft out of the little grass field near Hamilton Ontario. Trevor earned his licenses and ratings by working in the steel industry in Hamilton and worked his way through the necessary licenses and ratings. Today he is a successful, international competitor and holds an unrestricted low level airshow waiver. As a working-class guy, and with a desire to compete in the fairly elite world of competition aerobatics and airshow flying, Trevor had to get creative. Using his skill in the trades that he grew up in, he started building his own aircraft, each one being more complex and higher performance than its predecessor. His current mount (number 5) being the biggest, baddest of the bunch. The Pitts model 12 is a traditional looking biplane with a 1930's barnstormer appeal but with 400 horsepower and extremely light weight, it has as much or more performance than most modern factory-built airplanes and it is hand built, one of a kind.