Meet the Captain

I’m Captain Morgen Underwood, an aviator with years of experience and an unwavering love for flight.

My connection to aviation began when I was eight years old and was given the chance to take the controls of an airplane for the first time. I still remember looking out from the cockpit and realizing that flying was not simply something I enjoyed—it was something I wanted to build my life around.

That same year, I wrote on a piece of paper that I was going to become a pilot. There was no hesitation in those words. I was a determined young boy who believed, with complete certainty, that it would happen.

My dad also helped bring aviation into my life while pursuing his own pilot’s license. I spent hours sitting in the back of the airplane during his training flights, watching, listening, and taking in everything around me. Those moments made aviation feel familiar long before I understood just how deeply it would shape my future.

In high school, I learned that I had a severe color vision deficiency. For a time, I believed that discovery meant the end of my dream. Professors, experienced aviators, and others in the industry told me that people with my condition rarely made it through and that I should consider another path.

But I could not accept that someone else’s understanding of what was possible had to become the limit of my future.

Even when the route to the cockpit was uncertain, I continued building a life rooted in service, discipline, and aviation. I served nearly ten years as an enlisted member of the United States Air Force. During my military service, I attended Metropolitan State University of Denver, where I studied aviation and aerospace science while continuing to search for a way past the medical restriction standing between me and the career I had imagined since childhood.

I kept asking questions, finding new people to learn from, and refusing to stop moving forward. Eventually, I found a knowledgeable doctor and the proper path through the Federal Aviation Administration to have my medical restriction lifted.

It was not a quick or easy journey, but it taught me something I have carried with me ever since: sometimes reaching your destination requires adjusting your course. You simply have to keep searching for the way through.

I went on to become a flight instructor, flew for the regional airlines, and today serve as a captain flying private jets across the country while mentoring new aviators. Through every stage of that journey, my passion for aviation has only grown stronger.

None of it would have been possible without the people beside me. My wife has been my greatest co-pilot through every uncertain season, setback, and victory. She believed in me, encouraged me, and stood beside me even when the road ahead was difficult to see.

Today, we have three little crew members of our own. Whenever an airplane passes overhead, I watch them look up with the same excitement I felt as a child. It reminds me that the wonder of aviation is often passed from one person to another, from parent to child, instructor to student, pilot to passenger, and dreamer to dreamer.

That is why I created Aviator Post.

I wanted to share more than facts about airplanes. I wanted to capture the feeling aviation gives us: the rush of hearing an aircraft overhead, the anticipation of watching jets through the terminal windows, the unmistakable smell of jet fuel in the morning, and the stories of determination, adventure, sacrifice, and everyday life behind every flight.

Aviator Post brings those stories into your hands. It is a way to celebrate the people, aircraft, memories, and journeys that make aviation impossible to forget.

It is for pilots, families, travelers, enthusiasts and anyone who always look up.