Flight Instructors
The Team
We All Love What We Do
Alpha One’s flight instructors will take you from zero flight time to being a fully qualified private pilot or any other rating you are pursuing

Chris Hyldburg -President
Chris founded Alpha One after attending Embry Riddle Aeronautical University.

John Greenlaw – Chief Pilot
John is our Chief Pilot and he has over 16,000 flight hours and attended Umass Boston.

Renee Taft
Renee has over 600 flight hours and completed her training at Westfield State.

Derek Creutz
Derek has over 1,100 flight hours and completed his training at ATP Flight School.

Justin Brochu
Justin has over 400 flight hours and completed his training at Bridgewater State University.

Josh Fortin
Josh has over 600 flight hours and completed his training at Thrust Flight Zero Time to Airline.

Sarah Ciabattoni
Sarah has 800 hours and she trained across the country while working as a flight attendant.

Buddy Macdonald
Buddy has been flying since 1972 and he has been on all sides of the aviation industry.

Dave Sanford
Dave has been flying since 1982, has over 1,400 flight hours, and attended Umass Amherst.

Kevin Costa
Kevin has been flying since 1994 and he has over 1000 flight hours with 500 in flight instruction.