Mark Kurzinski

sUAS Flight Instructor

DARTDrones

Mark Kurzinski is originally from Syracuse, NY where he enlisted in the Navy in 1993 and spent 10 years as an Avionics Electronics Technician working on the F-14A/B/D Tomcat troubleshooting and repairing radar, communications and weapons systems. Kurzinski Mark was selected to an officer accession program in 2001 and attended Navy flight school in Pensacola, FL where he flew the T-6a Texan II.

KurzinskiMark retired at the rank of Lieutenant in 2013 and quickly founded MidWest Drone Services in Cary, IL in 2014, blending multiple passions of flying, photography and video/audio production and editing. He started in real estate photography/cinematography but soon found drones were being used for mapping/modeling and inspections. He has experience in the inspectionsinspection’s realm in solar panel PV arrays, building facçade inspections and orthomosaic mapping.

KurzinskiMark has over more than 700 hours flying DJI sUAS from the Phantom 2 all the way up to heavy rotor aircraft Matrice 210 v2 and Matrice 300 RTK. He has been a Part 107 pilot since 2016 and a Part 61 Multi-Engine private pilot since 2006 logging over more than 900 fixed-wing hours in military and civilian aircraft. KurzinskiMark received a BA in Communication Studies/Broadcast Journalism from the University of San Diego in 2003 and was recently certified a Level 1 sUAS Thermographer from the Infrared Training Center in Nashua, NH.