Skydive Arizona News

It was a beautiful memorial for Goodyear firefighter engineer Austin Peck, who died in August.

Every September we celebrate our local skydivers who toughed out the hot weather and continued jumping through the summer months.

Following nearly a full week of competition, the 2019 FAI World Cup of Formation Skydiving and Artistic Events came to a close on October 12th, 2019. This event brought a lot of attention to Skydive Arizona. Here are some of the stories that were printed in the news!

Read about what happened during the month of August and what we have planned for September!

Skydive Arizona is a big drop zone with many extraordinary people! The Featured Friday series is aimed at getting to know the people that make Skydive Arizona rock!

AXIS — one of skydiving education’s indisputably premium brands. Brianne Thompson and Niklas Daniel, AXIS’s owners and instructors, are a pair of highly decorated skydivers who founded AXIS as a boutique instruction operation. The intentionally-small operation has been based at Skydive Arizona since 2010. In that time, Nik and Brianne have managed to actually revolutionize how skydiving is coached.

Skydive Arizona is a big drop zone with many extraordinary people! The Featured Friday series is aimed at getting to know the people that make Skydive Arizona rock!

Skydive Arizona is a big drop zone with many extraordinary people! The Featured Friday series is aimed at getting to know the people that make Skydive Arizona rock!

Skydive Arizona is a big drop zone with many extraordinary people! The Featured Friday series is aimed at getting to know the people that make Skydive Arizona rock!

Skydive Arizona is a big drop zone with many extraordinary people! The Featured Friday series is aimed at getting to know the people that make Skydive Arizona rock!

Skydive Arizona is a big drop zone with many extraordinary people! The Featured Friday series is aimed at getting to know the people that make Skydive Arizona rock!

Skydive Arizona is a big drop zone with many extraordinary people! The Featured Friday series is aimed at getting to know the people that make Skydive Arizona rock!

An Arizona woman crossed a big item off her bucket list Friday when she jumped out of a plane on her 100th birthday with her daughter and granddaughter at Skydive Arizona in Eloy.

Miles Daisher plans a surprise visit to be a part of Amy Chmelecki's attempt to break the world record for a Head-Up formation with a huge group of 72 skydivers. The pressure is on, but Amy has the drive to make it happen......

Morgan Low from AZ Family Channel 5, came out to Skydive Arizona to take a closer look at the sport of Wing-suiting......

“We get awesome feedback from the ladies, saying ‘I never would have known how to do this out of a plane,’ or ‘I never thought I could fly without weights.’ A lot of them have to jump with heavy guys, so they come to this event and can jump with people like-sized and take pointers and accomplish things.

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, skydivers from all over the country traveled to Skydive Arizona to participate in a Head-Up Formation Camp organized by some of the most experienced skydivers in the industry; Sara Curtis, Steve Curtis, Amy Chmelecki and Mikey Carpenter. The purpose of the camp: to train participants in preparation for the Upright World Record 100 Way Attempts at Skydive Chicago taking place July, 2019. Over the course of the weekend, the group made 14 jumps from 16,000ft.

Skydive Arizona AXIS and X-Force's Niklas Daniel featured on Fox 10 Phoenix news cast.

Meet a girl who grew up on the drop zone & has worked almost every aspect of the business. Meet, Windee Hill!