Travis Flint to ReceiveTrustees Award

Travis Flint is the 2022 recipient of the museum’s Trustees Award. The Trustees Award is given at the discretion of the Board of Trustees to thank special friends of the museum for voluntarily contributing services or making other gestures of goodwill to the skydiving museum in furtherance of its principles and objectives. Travis will receive the award during the Hall of Fame Ceremony Saturday evening. In 2018, Travis was critical to the success of “Operation Packrat,” a week-long effort to inventory and categorize over 1,500 individual museum donations. With Travis’ expertise in Information Technology, he provided the implementation, support and management of the computer-based system to inventory and categorize all donations. Moving forward, at the onset of the pandemic in 2020, Travis took the lead recommending the appropriate communications equipment so that the museum’s progress and communication could continue through Zoom and other online conferencing systems. When meetings went back to in-person, Travis made himself available to travel across the country and manage the equipment onsite so that our international friends and others unable to travel could participate. His expertise in IT saved the museum thousands of dollars in out-sourced AV equipment. During the Hall of Fame Weekend Celebrations, Travis lends a hand to ensure that all technical aspects of the weekend are functioning optimally and provides troubleshooting to keep things moving forward. Travis always willingly accepts requests with a smile. Travis was painting airplanes in 1996 when he and his co-workers agreed to make a jump. In his words, he was “scared shitless,” but couldn’t be the only one not to do it. He was in the plane, put his feet on the step, slipped out and hung from the strut, the JM pointed up and he let go! And, “IN THAT MOMENT MY LIFE CHANGED!” Travis is very involved with the PIA in many capacities and is currently the chair of the communication services committee. In 2019, he was awarded the PIA Member of the Year Award. Congratulations, Travis!