Chuck Fisher M.D.

Charles (Chuck) Fisher, M.D., is current president of EAA Chapter 35 in San Antonio, Texas. He’s been the newsletter editor and publisher, has been a board member for several years, is an avid Young Eagles pilot, for which his retired military airplane is a crowd favorite, and is active in several other aviation and professional organizations. He flies a retired National Guard 1949 L-17B that you’ll usually see over in the Warbirds area at AirVenture, and his copilot wife is a teacher who volunteers at KidVenture. Chuck has volunteered for several years as a narrator on the Warbirds tram, so if you’ve spent any time on that end of the grounds, you’ve might have met him.

Professionally, Dr. Fisher is a practicing physician, senior AME, and retired U.S. Air Force colonel who served in several locations stateside and abroad. He has been privileged to spend more than a thousand hours in the air with the world’s greatest fighter, tanker, and transport pilots. Later in his career he served on one of the Air Force’s senior medical leadership teams, commanded the Air Force’s largest and busiest medical group, and commanded the legendary USAF School of Aerospace Medicine — the center for education, training, and research into aviation, space, environmental, and human factors medicine since 1918. He’s taught and mentored flight surgeons and aeromedical physicians for decades, taught countless courses and lectures on aviation and human performance topics, written hundreds of professional and casual articles, and remains an active senior AME with a loyal following. Board certified in three disciplines, he is an independent medical consultant and on behalf of the Department of Defense, he works with international military officers and aviators from around the globe.

But, for all that important sounding stuff and having experienced the entire breadth of aviation, Chuck notes: “There is still simply no thrill in aviation as great as seeing the smile on a kid’s face during their first flight. It makes every second of training and every dollar spent totally worth it. EAA and my chapter is composed of like-minded people who also just love aviation, so I am thrilled to be able to do my part to make a lot more smiles!”