Captain Joseph Ririani is a former Kenya Airways pilot who founded the Kenya School of Flying in June 1992 to create an indigenous flight training institution owned and operated by Kenyans.
Frustrated that most Kenyan pilots had to train expensively in South Africa, he quit his job at KQ in 1996 to fully manage the school, which has since become one of Kenyaโs leading flight training schools.
In 2025, Ririani made headlines when he chained himself to an aircraft at Wilson Airport to protest land encroachment and developments around the airport perimeter, calling for safer training grounds for students.