Ron Kaplan is the Founder/Director of the Reel Stuff Film Festival of Aviation (). His consulting firm, Reel Stuff Aviation Resources LLC, additionally provides on-air talent and historic research services for producers of aviation film and broadcast projects. Also an aviation artist, writer and photographer, Kaplan is former director of the National Aviation Hall of Fame, now a client for whom he produces & directs the NAHF's annual "Oscar Night of Aviation," a broadcast-quality awards ceremony in Dayton, Ohio, where he resides.