Cory Bengtzen: Seeks Adventure
President
CB Aviation
Age: 35?
Years in Aviation: 15?
Memberships: NBAA
Did you know?
Bengtzen’s two kids are both learning to fly and expect to get their pilot’s licenses on their first legal birthday.
Cory Bengtzen is a quick start and the faster the better. You may recognize him as the cowboy pilot on the reality TV show “Dangerous Flights.” Or perhaps as the co-owner of the De Havilland Vampire Jet that just won 1st Place at the 2015 Reno Air Races. He bought his first plane, a Cessna Turbo 210, by age 21 and a year later was managing of one of the largest car dealerships in the state. By 25, he co-owned his own Ford dealership. Bengtzen dove full-time into aviation, his lifelong passion, when he bootstrapped the startup CB Aviation from a one-room office at the Ogden Airport in Utah (just north of Salt Lake City) at the age of 30. Today CB Aviation, an international aircraft broker, employs more than 30 people, spans three continents with a world-class maintenance facility housed in Cory’s other aviation venture, CB Jet Center, the highest rated and only CAA Certified FBO in Utah.
