VICTOR SLOAN          Watch the video! (movie length - 1.5 minute)

Victor Sloan, founder and president of Victor Aviation developed his interest in piston engines building motorcycle engines as a teenager. He would take an engine apart, figure out how it worked and attempt to find unique ways to improve the life and performance of the engine. This was important to Victor because at the age of 16, he was an expert flat track motorcycle racer and engine builder.

Racing motorcycles and the fascination of improving air cooled engines dominated his interests. Working in his father's garage with other motorcycle racers, including five-time world champion Kenny Roberts and others, Victor figured out how to make engines really work to their maximum reliable potential. Victor would disassemble the engines, find out ways to improve them and then test them on the race track. Victor knew that reliability and performance were necessary to finish the race.
Victor went on to become one of the nation's leading competition motorcycle engine builders, working on BSA, Triumph, Harley Davidson and Yamaha Motorcycles.

Victor decided to go to college and follow an interest in an aviation career. He actively pursued all the FAA licenses that one could obtain as a pilot, including MEL, CFII, and lifetime turbo-jet engineer ratings.

Through these years of training and gaining flight experience, Victor analyzed the problems that seemed inherent with piston aircraft engines. He saw the need to improve the piston aircraft engine and found a trade school in Palo Alto, California that focused on airframe and powerplant technology. Victor joined the program, and within two years of study, obtained lifetime vocational technical trade credentials with the State Of California to teach airframe and powerplant technology and became the chairman of the College Of San Mateo Aeronautics Counsel.

After four years of hands-on teaching of how powerplants worked, Victor decided to go into business for himself. He converted his old motorcycle van to a mobile aircraft repair shop and traveled around California servicing customers' aircraft. An aircraft engine shop then suddenly appeared where the motorcycle shop used to be in his father's garage and Victor Aviation was born.

With the experience gained from the motorcycle industry and help from some of his best colleagues, including the famous NHRA dragster engine builder, Keith Black, Victor applied his piston engine knowledge to the aircraft industry. Victor's parents then followed suit, came to work with him, and a business that started out of a van became the world's leading, quality engine rebuilding company. Victor also was inspired by his good friend Sam James, the four time world offshore unlimited boat racing champion.

The company has further grown into a machine shop operation encompassing some 20,000 square feet with distributors around the world. Victor has pioneered many product improvements and process changes to the way piston engines are built, and still today, no other company or manufacturer can match the superior quality and performance that is produced with a "Power By Victor"™ Engine.

Victor is proud to say that the tradition continues with the assistance of his two great sons and a wonderful team of professionals at Victor Aviation.