Yoshihide Muroya

I'll be honest — when I first saw "air racer" listed as someone's job, I thought it was a translation glitch. Nope. Yoshihide Muroya from Nara actually straps into a propeller plane and threads it through pylons at insane speeds a few meters off the ground, and he does it better than nearly anyone on the planet — the guy won the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in 2017, becoming the first Asian pilot ever to take that title. Born in 1973, graduated from Chuo University, and somehow ended up doing barrel rolls over racecourses instead of a desk job. There's something quietly wild about a guy from sleepy, temple-and-deer Nara going on to conquer the sky at that level. No flashy entertainment industry backstory, no viral moment — just decades of mastery in one of the most dangerous motorsports disciplines that most people didn't even know existed.

Yoshihide Muroya is a Japanese aviator and air racer born on January 27, 1973, in Nara City, Nara Prefecture. He is a graduate of Chuo University and has built a career as a competitive aerobatic pilot. Muroya maintains an official website and is active on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).

Name (English)

Yoshihide Muroya

Name (Japanese)

室屋義秀

Reading

むろや よしひで

Born

January 27, 1973 (age 53)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Ox (丑)

Origin

Nara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan

Height

173 cm

Occupation

Aviator / Air Racer

University

Chuo University

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://yoshi-muroya.jp/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/yoshi_muroya/
• Xhttps://x.com/Yoshi_MUROYA
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%A4%E5%B1%8B%E7%BE%A9%E7%A7%80

Tags

• From Nara Prefecture
• Aviator
• Air Racer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.