Rod Hightower, veteran pilot, EAA member and business executive was introduced Monday as the nex
t CEO and President of EAA.
Hightower, a Texas native, is a vintage aircraft enthusiast, having restored his own Stearman biplane, which he flies out of the Creve Coeur, Missouri airport. Hightower is a director of the National Stearman Foundation and has helped organize the annual Stearman National Fly-in.
His business career spans more than 25 years in management for manufacturing and industrial companies. His duties as EAA president will begin September 7 and include the day-to-day operations as well as direction of EAA programs and strategy. He is only the third president in EAA history and the first outside the Poberezny family.
(Photo by Shahn Sederberg)
