Hi, I’m Richard Arnold, owner and pilot of Hot Air Balloons USA. Within the first year of my first business I bought a hot air balloon to advertise my retail jewelry business that I started at an early age. The balloon advertising worked so well that it’s become its own business as “Dream Flights” doing commercial advertising & corporate events, and tethers. Since then, I’ve been doing passenger flights for over 25 years now and I still love every minute of it.

Over the years I’ve been privileged to have great people crewing for me, including my family members. This is my wife, Dawn & youngest son Peyton. We have been together for over 18 years now and we have 5 beautiful children.

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