13 Facts About Kermit Weeks

Kermit Weeks has competed in aerobatics, designed aircraft, and promoted aviation and vintage aircraft restoration.

Oil and gas royalties from the Weeks Royalty, derived from his grandfather Lewis George Weeks' work, provide Weeks with the funds, capital, and resources to pursue the preservation of historic aircraft.

Kermit Weeks eventually purchased a Pitts S-2A in order to fly in aerobatic competition.

In 1973 Kermit Weeks began entering aerobatic flying competitions while pursuing an aeronautical engineering degree at Miami-Dade Junior College, the University of Florida, and Purdue University.

Kermit Weeks has twice won the United States National Aerobatics Championship and has won several Invitational Masters Championships in worldwide competitions.

On May 26,2000, Kermit Weeks married Teresa Blazina in Sedona, Arizona.

In 2008 Kermit Weeks published a children's book, All of Life Is a School, featuring airplane characters.

Kermit Weeks followed it up with "The Spirit of Lindy" in September 2012.

In 2012 Weeks was awarded the Lloyd P Nolen Lifetime Achievement in Aviation Award by the Wings Over Houston Airshow.

Kermit Weeks maintains one of the largest private collections of flight-worthy historic aircraft in the world, most of which are at his Fantasy of Flight facility in Polk City, Florida.

Kermit Weeks owns one of the four remaining original P-51C Mustangs in the world, with an estimated worth of over US$3 million.

Kermit Weeks is known to have owned the largest number of Grumman J2F Duck aircraft since the USNavy, having purchased four of the rare aircraft; two have since been sold while one is frequently flown by Kermit Weeks, including amphibious water landings.

Kermit Weeks has purchased the iconic Sikorsky S-38 replica, Osa's Ark.