Flying Beast who is a popular and successful commercial pilot who faces lots of backlash from the people but at the same he was supported by his fans and audience. Flying beast is not only a pilot but he is also a successful social media influencer. In this article you will learn about the popular personality flying beast.
Who is the Flying Beast Aka Gaurav Taneja ?
Gaurav Taneja, popularly known as the Flying Beast, hails from Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, where he was born. He was born on 9 July 1986. Gaurav Taneja is a popular commercial pilot where he got pilot training from the United States and got a private pilot licence. Gaurav Taneja becomes a popular person and a public profile where he faces several controversies in his career and he comes in the limelight through his controversies and sometimes faces backlash and sometimes gets supported by his fans. Gaurav Taneja started his career as well as towards youtube as the social media influencer and built a successful career in youtube. He has multiple channels on social media from which he will regularly communicate with his audience.
An Inspiring Story of Gaurav Taneja From Aviation To T.V Star
Gaurav Taneja is a popular star and his life story and the journey towards achieving his career as an aspiring story. Gaurav Taneja is also known as the Flying beast, he started his journey as a commercial pilot. Taneja graduated from IIT Kharagpur and pursued his graduation degree. After graduation he went to the United States and got pilot training and converted his foreign private pilot license into Indian private pilot licence certificate in 2009. In 2011, he started his job in IndiGo flights and posted to Bengaluru. After that he had the opportunity to become the captain in Chennai for AirAsia in New Delhi in May 2019.
In 2020 at the time of lockdown Gaurav Taneja started his career towards youtube as the social media influencer and built a successful career in youtube. He shares personal information, daily life vlogs, aviation content, lifestyle videos, focuses on fitness and Health and made the travel vlogging channel. He has multiple youtube channels with he huge following on the youtube. His channels are from Flying Beast, FitMuscle TV, and Rasbhari ke Papa. His career as an influencer shows his passion towards aviation fitness and storytelling which inspires millions of people. He is engaged with several brands and partners with the brands to promote the product. Also he shares the reviews on the products and shares the honest opinions with the fans and other people.
Taneja is also a fitness instructor and won several other bodybuilding championships and became the certified fitness trainer and the nutritionist. Apart from that, in 2022 he also debuted in the television reality show named Smart Jodi with his wife Ritu Rathee on Star Plus with several other popular celebrities.
Personal Life of Gaurav Taneja
Gauran Taneja was born in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He was born on 9 July 1986. He turns 39 years old in July 2025. He belongs to a well settled and educated family.
Early Life And Education
Gaurav Taneja was always passionate throughout his career. He always wanted to become a pilot from a young age and he achieved his dream. He completed his schooling from Kanpur and for higher education he shifted to Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He completed his graduation in B.Tech from IIT Kharagpur. After his graduation completed a different training program in aviation from the United States and became a certified pilot. In 202 he studied about the Law and he successfully cleared the entrance exam.
Family and Marital Status
Gaurav Taneja was born in a well rich family and was fully supported by his own family towards achieving his career. His father was an employee in Bank and his mother was a school teacher. His father’s name is Yogendra Kumar Taneja, and his mother is Bharti Taneja. He also has a sister named Swati Taneja Bhatia. Gaurav tied a knot with Ritu Rathee who is also a commercial pilot and they both had a love marriage after several years of dating. On 5 February 2016 the couple got married and blessed with two daughters. The Eldest daughter was born in 2018 named Rashi and the younger daughter is named Pihu.
Controversies of Flying Beast
Gaurav Taneja becomes a popular person and a public profile where he faces several controversies in his career. There are several specific controversies which include aviation career, fitness criticism and divorce rumors.
AirAsia Controversies : In 2020 Gaurav Taneja was fired from AirAsia for publicly criticising the airline for compromising the passengers safety. Gairav Taneja made a choice to ask the pilots to do the 98 percent of landings in Flap 3 Mode to save the fuel and in this mode the passengers’ lives were at risk, so he was banned from AirAsia.
Divorce Rumors : Gaurav Taneja and Ritu Rathee divorce rumors started from the social media and a clip where the marriage was at risk. Gaurav and Ritu give their statement and address the whole misunderstanding in their youtube video and defend each other. They both get trolled about the false information for the PR stunt but they both clarify that this is not the PR stunt.
Birthday Bash Controversy : Gaurav Taneja and his wife Ritu planned a birthday party for Gaurav at the Noida metro station in the middle of his Fans. But the thousands of fans gathered were responsible for the chaos and crowd. Taneja got arrested for causing the disrupted traffic at the metro station and was arrested by the police. Later he was granted bail and showed the permission from the higher authorities and booked an entire metro coach for the celebration.
Social Media Profile
Gaurav Taneja has a strong personality on social media. He is a social media influencer where he is active continuously. He iis active through different platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, youtube and more.
- Instagram – Gaurav Taneja shares personal and professional glimpses with his personal experience on the social media platforms. He is active with the username @taneja.gaurav with more than 3.5 million followers.
- Youtube – He has several platforms on youtube through different usernames and on every youtube platform he shares different sections of his videos. His first channel is named as flying beast which has more than 9 million subscribers. His other channel is Fit Muscle tv with more than 1.36 million followers. His third channel was named as Rasbhari ke papa and he shares mostly there family blogs.
Net worth of Gaurav Taneja
Gaurav Taneja is a successful personality who started his career from a commercial pilot and continuing as a social media influencer by being inspired through his aviation journey. Gaurav Taneja has approximately 25 crores net worth through his different careers from Commercial pilot, social media influencer, and also as a fitness instructor. He has several cars and bike collections of Mercedes Benz G, Volvo V90 and a fortuner.
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