*Second Generation Tora Pilot.

• Hometown: Odessa, TX
• Occupation: Corporate Pilot
• Year of first flight with Tora: 2021
• Tail number(s) you normally fly with Tora: KATE 310, KATE 313, &  KATE 356
• Obtained License: 2018 
• Flight Hours (Approx): 3200
• Notable aircraft flown: Mooney Mite, Lockheed Electra Jr., Pitts S2B, Great Lakes Biplane, Pilatus PC-12, Falcon 2000LXS, Challenger 350, Ford Tri-Motor, North American B-25, & Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
• Favorite airplane to fly: North American AT-6

Parker Rathbun began his flying career at three years old, flying Radio Control aircraft with his father in Odessa, Texas. He began training in full-scale aircraft at the age of 12 in his family’s Beechcraft Musketeer, instructed by his dad. Parker first soloed on April 24, 2016, in Odessa, Texas, which happened to be 30 years to the day after his father’s.

Parker joined the Commemorative Air Force in 2014 as a cadet for the High Sky Wing based in Midland, Texas. His membership of the High Sky Wing sparked a love of being around and maintaining Warbirds. Parker had the chance to Solo his family’s AT-6 Texan after turning 18 years old in 2018.

His first flight in an airshow occurred that same year at the Midland CAF AIRSHO, flying the High Sky Wing’s Fairchild PT-19, earning his CAF Senior Pilot Rating. Since then, he has received his FAST Formation Card at the age of 19 and acquired over 400 hours in the AT-6 Texan. Parker began flying with TORA in 2021 as a ferry pilot for the group. In October of 2023 Parker received the opportunity to get checked out in the Commemorative Air Force’s Curtiss P-40N Warhawk.