Dr William T. Busch, Captain, U.S. Navy retired, is the Senior Aviation Medical Examiner (AME) at AVMED 51 and a consulting Flight Surgeon and Pilot for Stallion 51 Corporation.

Dr Busch is a native of the mid-west and was an intercollegiate varsity athlete majoring in biology prior to joining the United States Navy. He graduated from Navy Flight School and received his Naval Aviator Wings in 1978. As a pilot aboard the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal, he flew missions in the Mediterranean Sea, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean, North Atlantic and Caribbean Sea and was Wing Qualified as a Landing Signal Officer and NATOPS Standardization Officer. In 1982 he was selected as the Atlantic Fleet Pilot of the Year.

Upon leaving the fleet, Dr Busch attended medical school on a Navy scholarship and subsequently trained as a resident doctor in Family Practice. His follow-on training at the Naval Aerospace Medicine Institute earned him Naval Flight Surgeon Wings in 1988. He then returned to fleet service as one of only a few fully qualified Dual-Designated Naval Aviator/Flight Surgeons. In addition to his medical duties, he was an instructor pilot and re-qualified as a Carrier Pilot and Wing Landing Signal Officer. He served on the staff of Strike-Fighter Wings, Atlantic in support of 23 separate tactical jet squadrons and as aero-medical advisor during the Gulf War.

In 1995, Dr Busch graduated from training in Ophthalmology at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, served as Head of the Department of Ophthalmology at Naval Hospital Camp LeJeune and qualified as NASA/DOD Space Shuttle Operations Flight Surgeon. In 1998, he transferred to the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute in Pensacola as the Head of Navy Aviation Ophthalmology, where he also served as consultant to the Repatriate Prisoners of War Program and to NASA Medical Operations on Vision Standards. He deployed overseas as a surgeon on numerous humanitarian missions and to the jungles of Laos in support of Joint Task Force-Full Accounting, the MIA repatriation missions as a result of the war in Southeast Asia.

In 2001, Dr Busch transferred to Naval Air Station Jacksonville where he served as Senior Flight Surgeon and Head of the Navy Aero-Medical Dual-Designator Program and continued to fly as a pilot. He retired, after 29 years of military service as a Navy Captain.

Dr Busch has accumulated over 5000 hours and logged time in over 30 different types of military aircraft. A Board Certified Ophthalmologist, he is also an Airline Transport Rated Pilot, Certified Flight Instructor, FAA Senior Aviation Medical Examiner and Associate Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association. Because of his unique background and perspective, he is a sought after aviation and aero-medical consultant.