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I took my first flight towards getting my private pilots license on June 30, 1963. The flight was in a Piper J3 Cub at Hadley Airport in South Plainfield, New Jersey. I received my Private Pilots license on June 10, 1964.
I enrolled, for advanced training, at Sowell Aviation in Panama City, Florida on July 13, 1964. During my time there, I received my Commercial, Instrument and Multi-engine Ratings.
After returning home to Perth Amboy, New Jersey I did some Commercial flying at Hadley Airport.
Zantop Air Transport hired me on September 21, 1964 as a C-46 (Curtiss Commando) First Officer (Co-Pilot). My first flight in the C-46, during New Hire School, was on October 3, 1964. During my time at Zantop I also checked out as a First Officer on the Douglas DC-7. My first flight on the DC-7 was a training flight on July 24, 1965. I flew my last flight with Zantop, in a DC-7, on August 5, 1966.
While at Zantop I was hired by United Air Lines with a New Hire class date of August 22, 1966. During my thirty-three plus years at United I flew the Boeing 727 as a Flight Engineer, First Officer and Captain; I flew the Boeing 737 as both First Officer and Captain; I flew the Boeing 767 as both First Officer and Captain; I flew the Boeing 757, the Boeing 777 and the Boeing 747-400 as Captain only.
My retirement from united Airlines was on December 31, 1999. At the time of my retirement I was a Captain on the 747-400 flying out of Chicago O’Hare International Airport to the Pacific Rim Countries.