Lt Col Jerry
D. (Jive) Kerby, USAF (Ret)
Born
in 1959, Jerry Kerby grew up in Lancaster, Missouri. He
started flying lessons when he was 15, soloed on his
16
th birthday and received his private
pilot’s license on his 17
th birthday,
the earliest age allowed. By the time Jerry
received his BS in Aviation from Northeast Louisiana
University (now University of LA-Monroe) and was entering
the United States Air Force’s Officer Training School
in 1983, he had already earned his Airline Transport
Pilot (ATP) License and had logged approximately 4300
flight hours. **Lt
Col Kerby retired in 2006 after 23 years of service in
the USAF
USAF
Service Highlights:
Graduated
#1 in pilot training class and awarded F-15 Eagle training
slot
- Graduate
of the ultra elite USAF Fighter Weapons School in the
F-15 (top 1% of all F-15 pilots)
- Seven
Operational Tours in the F-15, including Weapons and
Tactics Officer of the 58FS Gorillas during Desert
Storm (SOUTHERN WATCH)
- One
of the highest time F-15 pilots in USAF with over 3400
hours flown
- Winner
- Overall Top 2-Ship in USAF William Tell Air-to-Air
Competition (1992)
- Led
over 20 missions in Desert Storm (SOUTHERN WATCH) as
overall Air-to-Air Mission Commander
- F-15
Instructor Pilot/Military Liaison for the first Royal
Saudi Air Force Fighter Weapons School (1996)
- F-22A
Program Manager during the F-22 Raptor’s operational
testing
- Commander
of 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron responsible for target
generation for all Department of Defense missile testing
with a fleet of QF-4 Phantom’s and subscale vehicles (2003-5)
- First
F-4 Heritage Flight Pilot for the USAF (2005)
Military
Decorations:
Civilian
Aviation
and
Air
Show
Highlights:
- Certified
Flight Instructor in MS760, F-4 Phantom, T-33 Shooting
Star, T-28 Trojan, and L-39 Albatross aircraft
Surface
Solo and Formation Aerobatic card in F-4, T-33, L-39
- One
of only two civilian Certified Flight Instructor in
F-4 (non-military) in the US
- Five
years of air show experience and over 150 low level
performances in high performance aircraft
- Board
of Directors of air show industry non-profit Outstanding
Performance, Inc
- Over
11,000 flight hours in over 50 types of aircrafts
