Aviation Experience

Florida Aviation Counsel, LLP, is a law firm founded by Brian Hill to provide a unique combination of legal and aviation experience.

Mr. Hill's 30-year aviation career began in college at the University of Florida when he volunteered for the Naval Aviation Reserve Officer Training program. He attended the Navy's Officer Training Course during the summer of his junior year in college and was commissioned shortly after graduation. He received his Navy wings in 1970. By that time, he was qualified in the T- 34 Mentor, a Beechcraft airplane; the T-28 Trojan; the TH-57 Jet Ranger, a Bell Helicopter; and the H-1 Huey.

Assigned to San Diego, he qualified as an aircraft commander in the H-3 Sikorsky Sea King twin-engine helicopter. He later flew search-and-rescue missions off the aircraft carrier Ticonderoga in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of Vietnam.

At the end of his Navy tour, Mr. Hill started law school at the University of Florida. He continued his flight career by joining the Florida National Guard and flying the H-1 Huey and the TH-57 Jet Ranger.

After graduating from law school, Mr. Hill kept flying in civilian aircraft. He has owned and operated a number of civilian aircraft and has amassed more than 5,000 hours of flight time. He currently holds a commercial license with an instrument rating. He is the president of a flying club in Daytona Beach that is more than 60 years old.

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