Captain Ken Jacobson

Public Affairs Officer, CF-18 Demonstration Team

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Captain (Capt.) Ken Jacobson has had a deep interest in aviation from an early age. As a youth, Capt. Jacobson regularly attended regional airshows awed by the performances and displays, always looking skyward anticipating the performance of the Canadian Forces Snowbirds. He joined 6 Jim Whitecross, Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron at the age of 13.

Capt. Jacobson received his Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours from the School of Art at the University of Manitoba in June 2000, where he majored in video production, 3D graphics and video compositing with a minor in graphic design. After spending the next several years working at the University of Manitoba, Capt. Jacobson joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 2008. Capt. Jacobson worked as a Ground Controller with 8 Wing Air Traffic Control (ATC) Unit, in Trenton, Ontario, before becoming a Public Affairs Officer in 2015. As a Public Affairs Officer Capt. Jacobson has had the opportunity to work for 3rd Canadian Division (Canadian Army) in Edmonton, Alberta; 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade (Canadian Army) in Edmonton Alberta, and is currently posted to 1 Canadian Air Division/Canadian NORAD Region Headquarters (Royal Canadian Air Force) in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he works as the 1 Canadian Air Division Special Events Public Affairs Officer.

Throughout his military career, Capt. Jacobson has deployed several times including; Thule AB, Greenland, for Operation BOXTOP in 2012; twice as the Land Task Force Public Affairs Officer to British Columbia for Operation LENTUS, the Canadian Armed Forces’ response to natural disasters in Canada, in 2017 and 2018; to Grafenwöhr, Germany, in 2018, to participate in the US Army’s Multi-Domain Operation, Joint Warfighting Assessment 18.1; and in 2019 to Latvia for Rotation12 of Operation REASSURANCE, part of NATO’s assurance and deterrence measures in Central and Eastern Europe.

Capt. Jacobson has been the voice of the CF-18 Demonstration Team since 2022 and is looking forward to coming back (at select locations) for the 2024 season to celebrate the RCAF Centennial with audiences across Canada and the United States this airshow season.