BIOGRAPHY

Scott Youmans is a native of Phoenix, Arizona, born in 1955. Among his earliest and fondest memories are rides with his parents to Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport and driving by NAF Litchfield Park where hundreds of mothballed US Navy and Marine Corps aircraft were stored. Aircraft became a central theme in his life that continues to this day.

While growing up Scott spent entire days at Sky Harbor Airport, built dozens of scale and radio controlled models, and made scale drawings of his favorite aircraft. In the late 1960’s, inspired by his artist brother-in-law, he began combining photography with his other aviation interests. Scott’s artistic talents were further developed through friendships with talented artists, family members, and high school drawing and painting classes. During the late seventies and early eighties Scott was a regular on the monthly photo tours of MASDC (now AMARG) where he shot hundreds of photos of the many aircraft in storage there.

His appreciation of aircraft aesthetics and his interest in art and photography were recognized by being chosen in 2005 and again in 2016 to provide photographs of the entire aircraft collection for the Pima Air & Space Museum’s books of the same name. Starting around 2009 Scott began working with the United States Marines at MCAS Yuma, Arizona and MCAS Cherry Point, North Carolina to photographically document various training exercises.

His photographs have been used widely by the US Marine Corps, featured by Air & Space Smithsonian, Combat Aircraft, Flypast, Marine Corps Aviation Association Journal, The Windsock, Yellow Sheet, Arizona Lifestyle, and others. In 2018 Scott was made an honorary member of VMGR-252, the USMC KC-130J Tanker Squadron based at Cherry Point, North Carolina. Scott’s photographs have been displayed at single-artist photographic shows including at the Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Arizona, an aviation related gallery in Sedona, and corporate conference rooms. In 2017 Honeywell Aerospace produced an internationally distributed video on Scott’s interest in aviation and his photography called “We Are Honeywell”. Currently on display at the at the Pima Air & Space Museum are a number of his United States Marine Corps “air to air” photographs. These are displayed alongside an art exhibit from the Nation Museum of the Marine Corps in Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame.