Don Kirlin, D 5372, is a sport parachutist, organizer/promoter of larger-scale aviation events, pilot, aircraft operator and owner, air frame and power plant mechanic, and aviation business owner. He founded his aviation company, Air USA, in 1994; he was the visionary and organizer of the World Freefall Convention in Quincy, Illinois, for 17 years beginning in 1990 which was, at the time, the largest gathering of skydivers from around the world; he founded Sky’s West Parachute Center in Ft. Collins, Colorado, and he was an airline transport pilot having flown for Piedmont and American Airlines retiring in 2020. Don is proud of his skydiving family which consists of his wife, daughter and two sons. As a tandem instructor, he took all three of his children on their first jump at the World Freefall Convention.