Andy Stinis began Skywriting in the 1930’s all over the country for commercial clients creating awareness, branding and impact to millions of viewers.   The company Skywriting Corporation of America in which Andy Stinis (Chief Pilot) was one of the five partners.  Pepsi-Cola, was the first soft drink company to print its messages in mile-high letters across 10 miles of sky.  Pepsi-Cola became one of the longest-running contractors of skywriting, in the late 1930’s and mid 1950’s.  With a fleet of 14 biplanes, Andy skywrote Pepsi  2,225 times over 48 states. 

In 1946, Andy begins development of a faster method of Skywriting using multiple aircraft he called “Skytyping”.  In 1949, the first successful Skytyping sign was created over New York City using 9 aircraft.  From that point on, Andy began Skytyping operations in Flushing, NY.  Filed August 18, 1961 and issued October 6, 1964 Andy Stinis was awarded the first Patent (3,151,410) on Skytyping.  The motivation behind Andy Stinis' invention was to improve the quality of skywriting and decrease the time it took to perform the skyboards in the sky. Skytyping is seventeen times faster than skywriting and your entire skyboard will remain intact for approximately seven minutes.   By 1964, Andy had bought the rights to Skywriting Corporation of America and Incorporated Stinis Air Service.

In 1965, Andy and Son Greg came with a fleet of SNJ-2 aircraft to California for a Laura Scudder’s Skytyping contract.  Greg fell in love with California’s beautiful weather and created the west cost division.  For a period of 10 years, Greg ran East and West divisions.  Due to business growth and economics, Greg focused more on the West Coast division and hired Mort Arken to run the East Coast.

In August 2004, Greg and Stephen formed Skytypers, Inc DBA: Skywriters USA in Las Vegas.  The goal is to now offer its Skywriting and Skytyping services nationwide for millions to see.   For over 40 years, Skytyping has own the sky on the East and West coast.  Today, Skytypers has grown into an international advertising firm.  With over 65 years in the sky advertising business experience, national and worldwide clients, being exclusive in the skytyping business, the growth potential and opportunities are endless.   We have domestic operating units in New York, and California. We have expanded our services internationally to include Japan, South Africa and France.

The Skytypers travel to air- shows all over the United States and Canada, demonstrating their precision flying and Skytyping abilities to millions of people each year.

The Skytyping process utilizes five airplanes that fly abreast, 250-feet apart and "type" up to 30 character messages in a dot-matrix-like pattern. When Skytyping, the airplanes create messages in the sky 5 miles long, as tall as the Empire State Building!  Skytyping can be seen 15 miles in any direction or nearly 400 square miles!