Sean Tucker
| Sean D. Tucker | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 27, 1952 Eagle Rock, CA |
| Residence | Salinas, California |
| Occupation | Airshow pilot |
| Years active | 1976–present |
| Spouse(s) | Colleen Tucker (m. 1977) |
| Children | Eric Tucker Tara Tucker |
| Website | Team Oracle |
Sean Doherty Tucker (born April 27, 1952) is an American aerobatic pilot who is sponsored by the Oracle Corporation and performs in airshows worldwide as Team Oracle. Tucker has won several airshow championship competitions throughout his career and was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2008. He currently serves as Chairman of the Experimental Aircraft Association's Young Eagles program.
Sean Tucker, a native of Eagle Rock, California, earned his pilot’s certificate at age 17. His father, William, was an aviation industry lawyer who had learned to fly as part of his job. Tucker started out as a cropduster, eventually starting a cropdusting business in Salinas, California. In order to overcome his fear of crashing, he took an aerobatics course, through which he "found out you could roll an airplane upside down and it wouldn't fall out of the sky." He has been flying airshows worldwide since the mid-1970s and is considered by many to be one of the world’s premier airshow performers. Tucker's favorite stunt is the "triple ribbon cut", where he uses his plane to cut three ribbons suspended between poles from three different angles. Despite once having a fear of flying, Tucker has flown more than 1,000 performances at more than 425 airshows, in front of more than 80 million spectators.
Tucker's first sponsorship was with Randolph Sunglasses from 1993 through 1995, then in 1996 he transitioned to MCI under the 1-800-COLLECT and 10-10-220 brands until his start with Oracle in 2001.
Team Oracle states Tucker has been named one of the Living Legends of Aviation, is the recipient of the Crystal Eagle Award, was an inductee at the 2001 USAF Gathering of Eagles, and in 2003 was named one of the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum's 25 Living Legends of Flight.
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