About Us

The Way You Train Determines the Pilot You Become

Flight Stars is a flight school at Falcon Field Airport in Mesa, Arizona. We specialize in multiengine training in the Diamond DA42 — the ideal advanced trainer for professional multiengine training.

Standards aren't negotiable here. Instructors are selected, not just hired. And the relationship between student and school is built on trust, not transaction.

We don't have employees — we have team members who treat the business as if their success depended on it. The people below run the business with a single mission: to move your aviation career forward.

Leadership & Operations

The People Running the School

Ownership, chief pilot oversight, operations, maintenance, sales, customer success, and marketing — the team that sets the standards and keeps the Diamond Aircraft fleet flying every day.

Matt Schulz

Matt Schulz

Co-founder · Owner

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Carol Schulz

Carol Schulz

Co-founder · Owner

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Chip Bornstein

Chief Pilot

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Gustavo Moser

Gustavo Moser

Sales · Diamond Ambassador

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Anthony Gimenez

Operations

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Devin Starr

Director of Maintenance

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Sarah Johnson

Customer Success

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Leo Moser

Marketing

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Multiengine Instructors

Our MEIs

They're the reason students finish their multiengine rating in ten days and walk out first-attempt pass. You'll leave with the habit patterns, IFR discipline, and systems fluency that carry into your first turbine transition.

Dylan Meyer

Dylan Meyer

CFI / CFII / MEI

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Buddy King

Buddy King

CFI / CFII / MEI

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Logan Parker

Logan Parker

CFI / CFII / MEI

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Colin Boone

Colin Boone

CFI / CFII / MEI

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Gavin Stella

Gavin Stella

CFI / CFII / MEI

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William Garren

William Garren

CFI / CFII / MEI

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Certified Flight Instructors

Our CFIs

Primary training is the foundation every other rating sits on. Our CFIs teach stick-and-rudder, checklist discipline, and G1000 fluency the same way our MEIs teach a professional twin cockpit — so the habits you build in the DA40 carry straight into the DA42 and beyond.

Gavin Stella

Gavin Stella

CFI / CFII / MEI

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Chase Haltom

Chase Haltom

CFI / CFII

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Chase Parker

Chase Parker

CFI / CFII

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Tom Green

Tom Green

CFI / CFII

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Next Step

Ready to Onboard?

Tell us where you are in your training and where you want to go. We'll come back with a program, a schedule, and — before you arrive — your checkride date.

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