Kevin Lacey Repos a Crusty Cessna 421!
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- Опубликовано: 28 мар 2024
- (Please Subscribe!) Kevin Lacey of Airplane Repo tells the story of a time the Bank sent him to fly back a very crusty Cessna 421 from the gulf coast of Texas.
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Kevin Lacey's repo career can be summed up quite easily: "Been there, done that!" He MADE that show on TV what is was.
No longer
He's quite the story teller and "a character to boot". I'm sure he has many more to tell in his "book". You could easily do one a month here on TAKING OFF for a few years.
Excellent pilot story Kevin. Thank you for coming on the channel and sharing another one of your stories with us. Keep up the excellent work Dan. Safe skies my friend 🇺🇸🛩️
Kevin should have his own RUclips channel - or book - of all of his "Pilot Stories". What an aviation cowboy!
He has a book. It’s great. It’s called Fly It like You Stole It
I read his book, it’s amazing! I couldn’t put it down.
@@pilotchristy Well, I'm officially embarrassed... Thanks for letting me know! I've got it in my Amazon cart right now. Keep the "wheels down and shiny side up" PilotChristy! Thanks y'all for the great content.
He is a horrible pilot that makes us all look bad. He should have never flown the plane he talks about in the video, and should have lost his license for even trying.
Opinions are like Ass Holes, everyone has one !
Apparently you know nothing of his background and I’m not talking about the Airplane Repo show. Mr. Lacey is a Great Pilot ! That’s all I have to say on the matter.
Wow. I loved Kevin's stories on Airplane Repo. That guy is hilarious. I'm sorta bummed that show got pulled. That was one of the more entertaining "reality" programs on TV back in the day.
More of this please! 👍🔥
I love hearing these stories. Well told.
I've had several beers with him at OSH over the years. Always a good time. :-) He's quite the story teller
Good morning from Minnesota! Kevin's so awesome!
I could listen to his stories all day!
Thank you ..... that was a great story well told !!!!!
Good yarn and I loved the logo on your shirt "Fly it like you stole it." You made my day.
Great little story Kevin 👍👍🚁
Great Story ❤
Thoroughly enjoyed that!
Wow, thats about all I can say! I miss his show!!! The experiences he has been through his career in aviation must be amazing!!!
thank you for this type of experience told from the pilot of this 421...like to review his log book with him someday.....cheers..
Wow, what a great story teller! My dad ferried an Aero Commander gear down from Arizona to San Antonio in the 60s. An engine quit over Mexico, low over mountains & prop wouldn't feather. One engine, gear down & windmilling prop means he's descending fast. Fooling with controls & searching for _any_ landing spot (were none) the other engine died. Dad decided to jump as he was wearing a parachute required on ferries. The door wouldn't open! Apparent safety feature so nobody walks into a spinning prop. Back in cockpit, looking for place to land, messing with controls he hit a primer & an engine roared to life for a few seconds & died again. He pushed the other primer & engine did the same. He flew the rest of the way to San Antonio _pushing primers,_ one at a time as they were further apart than he could stretch two fingers, manipulating a few seconds of engine power on each one to (barely) climb & maintain level flight.
Wow! Thanks for sharing!
That’s the sign of a bad pilot. Never fly a plane that you haven’t fully inspected and made sure is safe to fly. Pilots like that make us all look bad.
Always enjoyed your TV show. Watching this from Rockport
Good story, you keep your head on straight, and made a smart move. This is what makes a good pilot, work out the problem, don't panic.
Great story!
I’m just amazed he’s a good storyteller.
I do so hate it when a airplane tries to kill me. Especially when it tries multiple times. Thanks for a great tale, Kevin.
This guy is an amazing pilot
He’s a storyteller. It’s never as daunting as he claims on these things, but it makes for good entertainment.
Great story man.
Airplane repo TV show may have been fake, but it was all based on real events. Kevin is the real deal.
No real pilot would have flown that plane. He still always on the pilot to make sure the plane is safe before flying it. He should have never flown it, and the FAA needs to take his license.
I drive by that Rockport airport often on my way to gigs at Sugar Shack. Salt Air? 100% of the time. It's just 1/4 mile or so to the beach.
“KEVIN!”…
“YEAH….HOOOO!!”🤣💕
And sir, you're a legend in your field!
I remember back when I was in high school in the early 70's, also earned my private pilot's license by working part time at the FBO at Bowman Field in Louisville. We had a couple of nice shiny 421's based there and I thought that you couldn't get anything better without going to a jet.
Random feed. Loved it. Damn what a great story, LMAO. Glad you handled it.
I thought your show was great, glad that you had the opportunity to show the public a actual job that we would never have had a chance to see. I hope you were well compensated too. That’s one wild occupation.
👍✅Great story, great storyteller🤣
Living on the edge Kev.
If you're not living life on the edge you're taking up too much space 😅👍
This guy knows his stuff! Most likely why he’s still alive!
I used to love watching airplane repo. (Everyone knows it was staged for the show but entertaining nonetheless). Kevin is a cool 'ol dude! Subbed
Texaco map and a compass...
I’ve never heard of Kevin Spacey but bow I’m a big fan.
You should look up Airplane Repo. He's the same guy in the air or on the ground.
Had a dzo once that told me about something similar. Never get in a plane if you aren’t sure who owns it. If you have to jump start the plane w a Jeep , you probably shouldn’t get in it.
Amen to that statement
@@danblumel it was fine. Once was enough for me.
Good luck! My experience with twin Cessna had not bern favorable
I like Kevin.
But extended run up?
That would've caught the mechanical pump failure.
Trying to tune the freq while exiting the pattern?
C'mon now bub
I was thinking the same, weren't you supposed to already be on that frequency?
I was a licensed A&P mech for 40 years with 22 working on Cessnas at a large Cessna dealer in Wichita,Ks.,I have seen a lot of crappy airplanes and pilots.I would never get in an aircraft with this guy as the pilot.Some of this sounds like bullshit.
@@jettechdonatkins I agree. It is mostly BS.
Don't watch the show Airplane Repo.... haha
I trained a guy to replace me when I was due to be promoted at Checker Auto, in the early 80’s. I taught him everything I knew including how we kept the deposit secure. Unfortunately we had to take it to the Yellow Front store at the other end of the shopping center as we were both in the same company and they only wanted to pay for one armored truck to transfer the cash. It’s a miracle we weren’t robbed walking back and forth with the deposit and bag full of change for the registers. Anyway this trainee decided it would be a good idea to pull money from the deposit somewhere between the two stores. When the company found out how much was missing they hired a private investigator and when he came up blank we all had to go in for a lie detector test. So there went my promotion, yet neither myself, the store manager or the PI they hired figured out how he was doing it. Training somebody to replace me? I don’t like to do that anymore!
Kevin did you ever work at RDU for Bucky Oliver as an A&P? 1974-77?
He smells smoke and thinks it's the salt in his eyes??!
You know the saying: There are no old, bold pilots? BS! Here's one that's old and bold and not too bright! VERY LUCKY THOUGH!
No picture of the plane?
Kevin's got a lot of grit. I'd cross the ocean with him in a wooden biplane if he said we could make it.
If I'm not correct, I've seen him traipsing thru fences -n- across great expanses to steal back stolen aircraft..... lmao, he's surely
a great story teller of a man but I'd rather see him in action. I'd forgotten all about him until I saw this & now I'll look him up.
When you buy your flys. You get what you pay for. When you produce your own. It gives you choices. Hook type, gauge, size. Colours, types of materials, do you want to add or omit a wing, tag, tail, change the profile, slimmer, more buggy, if dry, change hackle type, standard, parachute, paradun. Stage of life. Emerger, crippled, about to take off, egg layer, spent. Most importantly the moment the fish takes your fly the pride and achievement. As you progress you start producing for friends, club, teammates, ect. With life things change how long before you can no longer fish. You can still spend time behind the vice. Being 64 with health issues how long before it happens?
Oil line that controls the waste gate on the turbo charger hmmm
One of the best - wish Mike Kennedy was still with us too
Mike Kennedy is still alive
Died: August 31, 2018, Wilson County, TN
@@Vele1267I wish it was so but…
You must be thinking of a different Mike Kennedy, or possibly his son who died. Mike Kennedy as seen on airplane repo is still alive and well.. I just looked on his Instagram page
Like Charley Varrick...Kev is one of The Last Independents in His profession.
He needs His own Channel for sure.
old pilots, bold pilots but very few old bold pilots
Thank God the Director said "cut."
This show will make your bullsh*t meter explode.
FLIES
Miss the show
Gonna' take a while might as well get a dog, wife ,& mailbox. TOO FUNNY.
"hi your 421 is ready to fly"
"Lo siento yo no intiendo! Numero incorrecto... adios!"
In my opinion, loyalty to your employer only goes so far..
(Lacey is a very old French/Latin name..
It means cheerful orator. )
😊
Well, that's one way to make a living-
"great pilot"
"Flys"?
😂
Wanna become an airplane repo guy……
Kevin had a hottie for a partner.
I don't think Airplane Repo would be my cup of tea
Definitely a cowboy. Not a good example for general aviation safety
He is 60 something years old, and his whole life he has been flying shoddy equipment and he is still alive and well, I would say he is one of the safest pilots around, there are a lot of pilots that had they been in the situations he's been in probably would not be here today
I agree. He’s still alive repoing planes so I’m pretty sure he’s good at what he does. I liked the show even tho it was scripted but what reality show aren’t. It was still entertaining.
That was a good story. But after a few they all start too sound the same.
Wow what a piece of crap that plane was. 6:49 6:50
F-l-i-e-s.
Total BS.
Pure BS. 100 % staged for drama to include the owners help with the show. I know two owners that were part of the show helping him “reposes “ their own planes.
Pure pure BS.
That’s all reality TV. They’re not gonna waste time hoping something exciting happens when they can just plan it all from the beginning.
Airplane Repo was a stages BS show.🤦🏼
Yeah, it was pretty obvious it was 98% faked. But I enjoyed watching it anyway.
Ya reckon 🤷♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤣
I bet Kevin didn't care as long as the check was in the bank from the production company.
Awh man, you just ruined my day. Faked? Ha ha. Yeah, always thought the same. The typical “reality” show that was anything but.
Maybe, but they did know how to proof read.
The worst fake show ever.
The most staged and scripted "reality" show on tv.
As a Reality Show director, they're all scripted and staged.
@@TakingOff Why are you allowed to call them "reality" shows. That's like saying the Brady Bunch is a reality show. How about some TRUTH.
Because “Pretend Show” or “Re-Creation Show” wasn’t as catchy. It’s nearly impossible to ever catch stuff happening on camera with proper sound, camera angles etc. so in my case, I won’t make stuff up, but I do have to recreate stuff that has happened with the cast.
Yawnnnnnn
The show is so Fake,its laughable.
Wow what a piece of crap that plane was. 6:49 6:50