Snowbird 4A – Technical Coordinator, Canadian Forces Snowbirds
Corporal Karla Olivares-Meza is from Ottawa, Ontario, where she grew up seeing the Snowbirds fly past the parliament building every Canada Day.
She joined the 137 Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps where she spent 3 years developing an interest in the military. Her father’s passion for aviation led her to pursue a co-operative education position in her last year of high school at Sutton Aviation where she helped maintain Pipers and Cessnas from the Rockcliffe Flying Club.
In the summer of 2017, she joined the Canadian Armed Forces as an Aviation Systems Technician and graduated the following year. Shortly after, she got posted to 431 Air Demonstration Squadron in Moose Jaw.
Cpl Olivares-Meza is looking forward to her fourth year on the road with the Snowbirds.
