Kermit Weeks

Kermit Weeks, born on 14 July 1953 in Salt Lake City, Utah, is an American pilot, aviation enthusiast and aircraft collector who has also competed in aerobatics and designed aircraft. He bought a Pitts S-2A to fly in aerobatic competition, began entering contests in 1973 and by 1977 had built the Weeks Special, an aerobatic aircraft of his own design, and qualified for the United States Aerobatics Team. In 1978 he was runner-up among 61 competitors at the FAI World Aerobatic Championships in Czechoslovakia, and over about a dozen years he placed in the top three in the world five times and won 20 medals in World Aerobatics Championship competition. He has twice won the United States National Aerobatics Championship. He founded the Weeks Air Museum in Miami in 1985 and later opened Fantasy of Flight near Polk City, Florida, in 1995, and he was inducted into the Florida Aviation Hall of Fame in 2008.