About AirQuest Paragliding

Andrey “The Cosmonaut” Kuznetsov is a proper canopy artist. He learned to skydive in 1990 at just 15 years old and has completed over 5,000 jumps. He spent 10 years on a national skydiving canopy-formation team and holds three world skydiving records and a Guinness record, including the current world record for a 100-person canopy formation (2007, Florida).

In 2003 Andrey moved to the USA and pursued a career in mechanical design engineering. In New England he learned to fly paragliders in 2009, and with his canopy background progressed quickly — flying 200+ km flights in Texas within a few years.

He earned his USHPA Tandem Instructor certification in 2011 and his Advanced Instructor rating in 2020. He is an avid cross-country pilot and Tandem Administrator on the East Coast, with multiple state distance records, including a 153 km flight from Vermont (Mt. Ascutney) to the ocean in 2023 — one of only two PG pilots in New England to have done it.

Andrey is based in the greater Boston area and offers reserve repacking/inspection and glider inspection/repair for AirQuest Paragliding.