Tribble, beloved mascot of Pat Nalls and Nalls Aviation, seems to have trouble resisting toys on display in stores. After being scolded for just taking a toy at a supermarket last month, he took another toy while the team was on tour in Canada. The toy and Tribble were seen together at the check-out counter. […]
Team SHAR is just back from the Hamilton, Ontario twilight airshow, hosted by the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum. The museum displays many WWII era airplanes, but also has jets in its collection. The show limited the attendance to only 1,200 tickets per day. This is usually considered a small crowd by airshow standards, but ticket holders were given the […]
The Winston-Salem Airshow, at Smith Reynolds Airport September 19th and 20th, will once again host the Word’s Only Civilian Harrier team! “We’re excited to be invited back,” said Art Nalls. “We love North Carolina and the great hospitality we always receive there,” he added. This year, we’re bringing not only the Harrier and the L39, but two […]
While accompanying Pat on a routine grocery shopping trip, Tribble thought he’d just help himself to some of the dog toys in the pet isle. This was completely unnoticed by Pat until he was cornered and questioned at checkout time. Another shopper witnessed the event and followed both of them throughout the store and to the […]
Nalls Aviation is proud to announce that we now have 2 MORE qualified L39 Pilots! Jenna Dolan and Charlie VandenBossche successfully passed the intense and detailed examination for an type rating in the sleek jet. The Nalls Aviation crew stood by to make sure both of these candidates had nothing to do, but focus on the exam […]
Throw Back Thursday We never would have been approved to fly the Harrier as a civilian airplane, unless we had flown them in the Marine Corps. This is a photo aboard the USS Nassau, LHA-4, with VMA-231, around 1982-3. I don’t know the exact date but this was one of the multiple shipboard deployments I made with […]
Last September, Joe Anderson flew Admiral Fieghtner in our L39. At the Cleveland show, we were in the company two, very famous icons of aviation – – Whitey Feightner and Gene Detrick. Since the weather was beautiful and we had a fueled jet ready to go, why not? “Whitey” was given his naval call-sign by Butch O’Hare […]
Nalls Aviation, Inc, owner and operator of the World’s Only Civilian Harriers is proud to announce that the team is expanding. Meet LtCol Jenna Dolan, USMCR, and Major Monica Marucseac, USMCR. Two, very talented Marine Corps Aviators, both of these ladies have Harrier combat time and have joined Team SHAR. They are in training to fly the L-39 Albatross and […]
On May 8th, Nalls Aviation was honored to be included in the historic flyover of the National Mall, Washington, D.C. of nearly 60, WWII era airplanes. Nalls Aviation owns and operates a vintage 1939 Piper L-4 Cub, painted in a WWII invasion livery. Art Nalls flew the flight and was the second aircraft to fly […]
