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John Owens


GOALS:
Went from being forced to Live in the streets to Selling Waterbeds as I earned Flight Time starting with my Cessna 152-ll = N211SP ? My First Pilot Job was for Detroit Tigers Pitcher Denny McLain to FLY his Cheyenne-ll. That helped me get my second job FLYing Piper Navaho’s & Chieftain’s for Air Vermont. Then onto Combs Freight Air FLYing Convair 440’s fallowed by Evergreen International Airlines FLYing Boeing 727’s, mostly for UPS. Hating being a Night Freight Dog, I was hired to FLY BAC-111 for Florida Express Airlines where I Became a Captain. I Finally made to the Majors in 1987 when I was Hired by PIEDMONT Airlines which Bought USAirways ? where I Flew Fokker F-28, Boeing B-737, Fokker F-100, the the Mad Dog MD-82 for 10 years up to when a surgeon botched the Discectomy =l|l= where years later I Retired an American Airlines Air Bus A-330 Captain (( on paper )) Now it’s down to FLYing my Tecnam ????????????????????? =¡!¡=