Mr. Bob Moser.

Robert H “Bob” Moser loves aviation, a passion that began with his first airplane flight at age 10 and has persisted throughout his life. Bob is now an instructor for the Aviation Institute and plays a major role in the activities of the Aviation Resource Center (ARC) and the Advanced Simulation Facility (ASF) on the UNO Campus.

By the age 16, he held an advanced hang glider rating and was traveling the US with his brother entering national USHGA competition meets. He learned to fly airplanes while still in High School. In his nearly 30 years of flying, he has concentrated on building pilot credentials while sampling the endless variety American aviation offers.

Bob’s ratings now include an ATP in multi engine, a Commercial Pilot in single engine and gliders, a Certificated Flight Instructor (SEL, MEL, Glider and Instrument), a tail wheel zealot, a glider tow pilot and holds AGI and IGI Ground Instructor certificates.

In addition to teaching at the Aviation Institute, he is an active CFI, flying for the LeMay Flight Training Center on Offutt AFB. His other aviation activities include; VP of the Omaha Soaring Club, Young Eagle pilot w/250+ missions, columnist for NE Dept of Aeronautics periodical - PIREPS, OPS summer aviation camp pilot, ground school instructor for the Omaha Home Educators Network and manages of his own tail wheel flight training school, Heartland Flight.

Originally from Illinois, Mr. Moser was schooled as a mechanical engineer and holds (6) US Patents. His 25 year career in the corporate world found him as Executive VP of a $35 million – 110 employee manufacturing company, managing the engineering, manufacturing and marketing activities of the firm. He later went on to manage a Bellevue based internet company. After his youngest of 2 daughters finished college, his burning desire was to leave the corporate world behind and enter the aviation industry full time, in his words “to make a life instead of a living”.

In addition to aviation, music has been a life long passion for Bob. He is the Director and Founder of the AVI8ORS Ensemble (a WWII era USO Show band www.avi8ors.com ), a popular singer, actor and guitarist in the Omaha area. He has performed with many other area groups including the Cross Chords Gospel Quartet, MasterSingers and Voices of Omaha. His stage credits include numerous Opera Omaha and Omaha Community Playhouse productions, including 9 years in the cast of A Christmas Carol. He also appears in local and national television commercials, as well as radio commercials and print advertising.

When not teaching people how to fly or directing/performing with the AVI8ORS, Bob lives out his passion for WWII era aviation by flying his own 1941 J-5a Piper Cub, which first flew a mere 2 weeks before Pearl Harbor was attacked.