Matthias Dolderer

Matthias Dolderer is a German professional race and aerobatic pilot, born in 1970 in Ochsenhausen in Baden-Württemberg, and the 2016 champion of the Red Bull Air Race. He grew up at his parents' flight school, made his first solo flight at fourteen and became the youngest flight instructor in Germany at twenty-one. With his sister Verena he took over Tannheim Airfield, home of the Tannkosh fly-in, which has run since 1993, and since 2002 he has been an official pilot of the Flying Bulls. Before air racing he flew for the national ultralight team and ended that career as German champion. Moving to competition aerobatics in 2006, he won the German Aerobatic Championship in the Unlimited category in 2008, qualified at the Red Bull Air Race camp in Spain that autumn, and flew an Edge 540 in the series from 2009.