Team – Lytle Aviation LLC

The Team

Our Expert Instructors

Meet Our Team

Bryce Stickney

Lytle Aviation Owner, Chief Flight Instructor

Bryce is an experienced flight instructor who has successfully trained over 500 private, instrument, and commercial pilots. For the last 15 years, he's also provided recreation training and flight reviews. Bryce has 6000 total hours of experience, and 5000 of that is in teaching. Bryce loves seeing the country from a bird's eye view. Some of the coolest places he's flown are Farbanks, AK Ontario, Canada and UT. Bryce is family-oriented. One of his most significant accomplishments was teaching his Dad to fly.

Shawn Lucas

Flight Manager

Shawn has always had a passion for aviation since he was little. He used to tell his mom he was going to be a fighter pilot and take her flying when he got older. Well, Shawn started training with Bryce in 2017 and once Shawn received his pilot's certificate, his mom was his first passenger in a Cessna 150. He told his mom "It's no fighter jet but we're flying." Once he started flying, he never stopped striving to get to the next step in aviation. Bryce brought Shawn over to Lytle Aviation in 2022 as the first full time employee to start managing the day-to-day operations of the flight school. Shawn will be your first point of contact to help you through your aviation journey with Lytle Aviation.

Stephanie Giliotti

Flight Instructor

Steven Hitchins

Pilot Instructor

Steven grew up in Ohio and went to school at Purdue University in Indiana, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in earth and space science education. He is from a family of pilots, has been around aviation his entire life, and has been flying since he was fourteen. Steven has experience flying over 12 different types of airplanes in states all over the country including Florida and Alaska. He has around 725 hours, CFI, MEL, SES, and over 100 hours of Tailwheel. Outside of flying, Steven loves listening to and writing music, camping, and hiking. A motto he holds dear: “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”