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Soaring Over Arizona

Each year, Experience Scottsdale profiles a selection of local celebrities, from restaurateurs and sports figures to artists and adventurers. We invite you to meet this year’s luminaries and find out what they have to say about living, working and enjoying life in Scottsdale.

“I love the people that I meet doing my job,” says Tom Newman, who, together with his wife, Tina, owns and operates Scottsdale-based Sky Treks. “People think Arizona’s all desert, but our state is remarkably diverse and they’re always amazed at what we can show them on a three-hour flight to the Grand Canyon.”

Sky Treks, which flies out of Scottsdale Airport, provides easy access to Arizona’s natural wonders, including the Grand Canyon, Sedona and Monument Valley. “With our air tours and air/ground packages, visitors can explore Arizona’s most amazing sites and still be back in Scottsdale in time for dinner,” Newman says with a smile.

For a once-in-a-lifetime experience, Sky Treks offers the full-day “Grand Canyon Grand Adventure,” which combines plane and helicopter rides with a short pontoon boat trip on the Colorado River and a barbeque lunch on the Canyon’s West Rim. “The views along the West Rim are unique because the canyon walls are more vertical than the terraced walls at the South Rim,” Newman explains.

Making Sky Treks’ tours even more exciting are their high-wing planes that offer unobstructed in-flight views. “Plus, all our pilots are skilled guides,” Newman explains. “Guests can interact with them and ask questions, which is important to us because we want them to have the time of their life on our tours.”