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Solace Aerial is owned and operated by Ryan Muysenberg. Ryan has been around aviation since he was a child and has been a certified pilot since 2007. He graduated in 2009 from Western Michigan University where he earned a B.S. Degree in Aviation Flight Science as well as earned his FAA Commercial Pilot License for Airplane Single-engine Land (ASEL) & Airplane Multiengine Land (AMEL), his Instrument Rating, as well as his Complex and High-Performance endorsements. After graduating from college, Ryan earned his commission in the United States Navy.
During Ryan’s Active-Duty service, he received the greatest flight training our world can offer while he pursued the qualifications of Naval Aviator and Naval Flight Officer.
During his service, he was awarded two medals: “National Defense Service Medal” for serving honorably during the Global War on Terrorism and a “Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal”. In 2014 Ryan started his Agricultural Aviation Career where he started as a loader in Southern Alabama for Late Eddie Gideons R.I.P. and his wife Tammy. Ryan eventually earned his Tailwheel Endorsement, Airplane Single Engine Sea Rating, Certified Flight Instructor Rating for ASEL, and Class-A CDL.
Spring of 2015, Ryan’s passion for agricultural aviation was born as he landed his first Ag Pilot job in Texas. For the last 5 years, Ryan has worked with Aerinova Aerial of Illinois, Rice Flying Service of Arkansas, and Wallace Flying Service of Alabama. Ryan has maintained outstanding membership at the National and State level Agricultural Aviation Associations since 2014.
When Ryan is not flying AG, he works as a Corporate Pilot for private aircraft owners or as a Flight Instructor for aspiring pilots achieving their dreams. Ryan is a loving husband to his wife Michelle, and Father to his son Grant and daughter Cora.
About Michelle
Michelle was born and raised in Pensacola, Florida. Michelle graduated from West Florida High School of Advanced Technology in 2011 where she was in the Nursing program. Michelle then went on to earn her associate’s degree in Pre-Nursing from Pensacola State College.
In 2015, Michelle and her husband, Ryan, relocated to West Texas and Southwest Kansas while Ryan pursued his goal of becoming an agricultural pilot. Over the last 7 years, Michelle began learning what it takes to be part of Aerial Application Operation’s ground crew, mixing, loading, fueling, and mapping grower’s fields on the computer.
Shortly after the birth of their son Grant, they settled in Charleston, Illinois in 2017, where Michelle began working as a Laboratory Assistant at Sarah Bush Lincoln Hospital of Mattoon, IL. Michelle continued working while she earned an Associate degree in Medical Laboratory Technology from Kankakee Community College of IL.
After moving to Atmore, AL in 2020, Michelle switched gears and began working in the office and with growers in the community to get their fields mapped and jobs turned in to be sprayed.