Co-founder Captain Stewart McQuillan was a Tornado GR1 fighter pilot with the RAF when he experienced a spinal cord injury. Stewart is an engineer by trade and was determined not to be defeated as flying was his passion, so he got to work and invented the AEROLEG (Patent Pending), the world's first and only FAA Approved device that puts paraplegics behind the controls of a helicopter.

After bringing the AEROLEG to the United States, Stewart saw the plight of the other veterans and the corresponding epidemic of suicide and teamed up with Colonel Sean McClung and Kristen Christy to create a boarder vision that addressed these pressing needs.

After much planning, discussion and outreach with Veterans from military and first responder communities, NV3 decided to take an approach that would do more to build a sense of community and purpose among veterans.

That is where the NV3 Foundation was born.

While NV3 supports all Veteran-focused non-profits and the amazing work they carry out for vets, our initiative is to build a full Self-Contained Village for our vets, providing housing and medical facilities, teaching new hands-on careers or restarting old ones, and building a thriving social community of like-minded vets, giving full community support to vets day and night.