CONGRATS David Matteson!

Attention all you SPA wing-nuts.

David Matteson has passed the 1500 hour mark and is hereby promoted to :Senior Fleet Captain".

Congratulations Dave...You do Outstanding work around here! A pleasure to have you at Saint Paul VA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jerry

Well well well, Mr. Matteson reaches 1500 hrs eh? Great job Dave!!

Congrats Dave its a nice feeling to be there
Dave R

Wow Dave, way to go man.

This beer is on me. :beergreen:

Naresh

Nice going Dave. Well done, ex-el presidente.....

Thanks for all the nice remarks. Since reaching this milestone, it makes me think of the days when I just joined SPA about 5 or 6 years ago. I remember becoming the MSP manager after Mike Foster moved to VP of OPS. Wow, those were the days keeping pilot records with MS EXCEL. Believe me you needed to keep accurate records or someone may just crash the entire database!! I wonder who did that? HAHAHAHA!

After 2 years as hub manager, I was grandfathered into El Presidente as Lutgen called me. That was 2 years of making the airline grow. Thanks to the talents of Bob Thompson and developing a new database/pilot records and website and the continual work from Paul Deans making aircrafts, we moved forward as a airline. I am truly amazed at all the talent. Jerry making incrediable charters as well as the "go to" man knowing how to fly virtually anything. Naresh with his creative skills on websites and AI traffic. The list goes on and on.

Thanks to all of you for making this place the best VA around!!! I have made some great friends here both ones I have not met in person and the ones I have met. There is no place I would really want to be and I look forward to many more years here at SPA.

Take care all and happy flying,

Dave M