Louis Wilson-Chalon

Louis Wilson-Chalon is Military Marketing Manager Lead with Leonardo Helicopters UK. He joined the company in 2016 following a 30 year operationally dominated career in the Royal Navy as a ship’s navigator, helicopter pilot, warfare officer and staff officer. This included Carrier and Small Ship’s Flight flying operations in the Mediterranean, South Atlantic, Gulf, Caribbean and North Atlantic. In his staff roles he has experience of training ships to operate their aircraft, in HR and worked for the Director Army Aviation fielding the Apache helicopter for land operations. He has commanded aviation units at both squadron and force level; his last post was the Wildcat and Lynx Force Commander at RNAS Yeovilton where he oversaw the introduction of AW159 to RN service. He is a graduate of Joint Advanced Warfighting School in Norfolk Virginia, USA and remains a serving Air Branch Royal Navy Reservist.