AircraftOwner Online

The Taliban are rampaging. We lost the Olympics to Rio. Time for some good news. We couldn't pass up this great story about two down on their luck aircraft mechanics who found their pot of "gold" in Alaska. Reported by Elizabeth Bluemink in the Anchorage Daily News, the tale starts with two good ole Memphis boys, Carlos Nelson and Roy Adhern, who nine years ago quit their jobs as FedEx mechanics, pooled their savings and retirement money, and headed north to Alaska to seek their fortune.

Their dream was almost derailed before it started when the maintenance van holding all their tools and supplies broke down in British Columbia, hundreds of miles from their goal, Anchorage. The two friends managed to convince a flatbed driver to carry the van on to Anchorage which he did for $10,000, a bargain even a decade ago. Nelson and Adhern followed in their sturdy Dodge pickup and on a wing and a prayer opened Pegasus Aircraft Maintenance.

From that all-American start, the two entrepreneurs built a multimillion-dollar aircraft maintenance business that now employees 100 and serves Anchorage's largest fleet of air-cargo jumbo jets. Since nearly item used in Alaska goes in and out of Anchorage by plane business is booming. When Nelson and Adhern set off for Alaska, the "gold" they were seeking wasn't bright and shiny; it was covered with axle grease, engine oil, sweat and hard work. But the end result was just as rich. The friends just sold their thriving business for an undisclosed, but we're sure very lucrative sum, to NANA Development Corp., an Alaska Native firm with $1 billion in annual revenue.

At Lindbergh Aircraft Tug Co. we identify with men like Nelson and Adhern who risk it all to follow their dream, convinced they've got a good product to sell. That';s how we feel about our ergonomically designed Lindy's Aircraft Tugs. Come check us out.