Nik Tarascio is the CEO of Ventura Air Services, a family aviation company founded by his father more than three decades ago at Republic Airport in Farmingdale, New York. A licensed pilot since the age of thirteen, he is rated to fly jet, turboprop, and piston aircraft, and has worked across the aviation industry as a pilot, mechanic, avionics technician, and aircraft salesman. He is the author of Own Your Own Plane: It Costs Less Than You Think, and his perspective on private aviation has been featured by Fortune, HuffPost, Business Insider, Newsday, and the BBC.
