GEICO sponsors the Skytypers Air Show Team, which perform at airshows around the country using six SNJ-2 World War II-era planes. Known as skytyping, the aircraft perform low-level flying maneuvers while creating aerial smoke messages that are created via computer-controlled smoke puffs. On 7 September 2007, the lead pilot was killed after a rehearsal for the annual Naval Air Station Oceana airshow in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
