The Campbell Air Race Team

Lyle P. Campbell, Pilot

Lyle Campbell is Chairman of the Board of Founders Bank. A long time pilot and aviation enthusiast with 2100 pilot hours, Campbell resides in Paradise Valley, AZ.
Lyle holds a helicopter rating, gyroplane rating, seaplane rating, twin engine rating and has had an instrument rating for 18 years. Lyle is a partner in an aircraft charter company and is very involved in bringing the new Groen Brothers Hawk Gyro Plane to market. He owns a Lancair 4P, a Cessna 182 RG and a Cessna P-210 for his personal use. He also is a partner in a North American AT6.
Lyle also serves on the development boards of Iowa State University, Arizona State University and Community Church of Joy in Glendale Arizona. He was very active with the First Congregational Church of Downers Grove, Illinois and is currently Chairman of the Stewardship committee at the Congregational Church of the Valley in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is also Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Cornerstone Fund of The United Church of Christ, Cleveland, Ohio.

He has traveled extensively and serves on the board of directors of an international travel company, Seminars International, Inc. Chicago, Illinois. He enjoys golf and has a fleet of nine antique cars, mostly Lincoln Continentals.

Lyle and wife Nancy's three daughters and three sons have blessed their family with fourteen grandchildren and one great-grandson.

Sam Stewart, Journalist

Samaruddin "Sam" Stewart is a News photographer/photo editor for media giant America Online working out of the world headquarters in Dulles, Virginia. Sam is part of an editorial photo team that delivers news photography to AOL’s 25+ million US members on a daily basis. Sam has photographed in over 30 countries in his travels, which span 6 continents. Sam holds a B.A. in Journalism and a Master in Mass Communication degree both from Arizona State University. Prior to joining AOL in 2003, Sam worked for Agence France-Presse (AFP) in their Washington DC headquarters as a photo editor. Before his move back to the East Coast in 2002 Sam had worked for 6 years at several papers in Arizona, including the Arizona Republic and (Mesa) East Valley Tribune. He is the author of "The Adventure Continues," a photographic compilation and diary journal of the 2001 London to Sydney Air Race (www.adventurecontinues.com).

During the Around New Zealand Air Race 2004, Sam will be documenting the race in photographs and journals entries that will be transmitted daily back to NZAirRace.com for everyone to follow.

Sam is an active member of the National Press Photographers Association and standing member of the White House News Photographer Association. He currently resides just outside of Washington DC in Reston, Virginia.

R. Ed Frost, Pilot

Ed Frost retired from production agriculture after health problems in 1996, though still owns, with his family, Big Swan Farms Inc. located 6 miles from his home in Winchester, Illinois. Big Swan Farms produces corn, soybeans, and wheat.

While still in high school Ed received a free ride at a local airport to see if had any interest in flying and got hooked forever! Although Ed did not get his license until several years later in 1977, to date he now had logged 4500 hours of mostly personal flying. Being one of the only people in town with a plane, sometimes Ed is called for business flying including transporting medical patients to a major medical facility about three hours away in his Cessna 182.
Following the Campbell Air Race Team’s completion of the London to Sydney Air Race 2001(www.adventurecontinues.com <http://www.adventurecontinues.com>) in Sydney, Ed joined the team to return ferry the aircraft back to the USA. The plane "island hopped" the South Pacific with stops in New Zealand, Roratonga, Tahiti, and Easter Island before returning to the USA via South and Central America.

Chuck Frost, Pilot

Chuck Frost began farming on Big Swan Farms Inc. after graduating college. He worked on the farm for 2 ½ years. Then an opportunity arose at The First State Bank, and a career change was made. Since then Chuck has worked in the bank and is now the Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer. Chuck and his wife Lisa have one son and one daughter.

Chuck began flying at 8 years old, as map-reader for his father on family trips. Chuck’s love of flying grew each year as they took family trips in their Cessna 182 all over the United States, from California to Washington DC, to Florida to Wisconsin.

Chuck took his first private flying lesson in 1985, and became serious about attaining his pilot license in 1990 -1991. Chuck received his private license in 1991, flying a majority of time in a Cessna 182 and the past two years in an American Champion Citabria. Chuck also took up the hobby of Skydiving in 1986 - 1991 with 130 jumps under his belt.

Stuart Anderson, Engineer & Pilot

Although interested in aviation from an early age, Stuart set his mind to architecture as a career. In his later school years he joined a local chapter of the EAA and became increasingly determined to learn to fly an airplane. Moving to Auckland, New Zealand in 1997 gave him that opportunity.

While Stuart studied engineering, he also worked hard to save enough money to put towards his PPL. After obtaining a PPL in 1999, he continued flying regularly, enjoying the magnificent scenery and interesting places of New Zealand. Graduating with a B.E.(Mech) in 2001, he moved to Dunedin where Stuart split his work time as a product design engineer with Fisher & Paykel Appliances and as a commercial pilot and flight instructor at the Otago Aero Club. Stuart also enjoys playing golf, going to the gym, reading and sleeping in his spare time.

The entire Campbell Team would like to thank http://www.flyinn.co.nz for their assistance in making our entry in the 2004 New Zealand Air Race possible.