Robert Verhagen

Started a flight school years ago which later merged with a larger Part 141 school and built up about 1200 hours instructing in numerous SEL and MEL aircraft while teaching classroom ground school courses for all ratings. I started a part 135 company with some airplanes and flew as chief pilot transporting cargo daily along with an air taxi operation flying mostly cabin class twins. Later I flew a year as a captain for Scenic Airlines in Las Vegas doing Grand Canyon Tours and other part 135/121 work. I then got hired flying as captain on corporate jets for various Las Vegas Hotel Casinos: MGM Studios and Grand Casinos (8 years – Bob Hope & Dean Martin’s Pilot); Ballys Hotel Casinos; and Herbst-Collins. I have worked part time instructing since 1976 with the last 12 years flying and instructing in Cessna; Cirrus; Diamond Stars; and Senecas initially out of Van Nuys and El Monte and currently out of Torrance airport. This last year and a half I have been instructing a couple hundred h