Nashville

[gear_guy]

Anybody know of any good corporate flight departments in the Greater Nashville area? Thanks for any help.

 

[Flywrite]

Nissan North America has a BAe 800 at Smyrna (MQY) and I think they are about to take delivery of a Gulfstream. The pilots all seem like great guys. Cracker Barrel are HQd at Lebanon and also have an 800 (at BNA I think).

If you dont mind 135 Corporate Flight Management at MQY is planning a July class for Jetstream FOs (upgrade can be very quick). There is a lot of corporate shuttle-type flying there and for a 135 outfit it's a pretty decent place. In addition to Jetstreams they have Lears (35 & 45) and King Air 200s.

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Good Luck!

 

[gear_guy]

Does anyone have contact info on Gaylord Entertainment or O'Charley's? I have sent my info to Nissan three times this year with no response.

 

[Lear70]

I don't think O'Charley's keeps their aircraft in Nashville anymore.

Gaylord runs an Astra out of Hangar 2; a very, very tight flight department - just two guys with a contract alternate that shows up on the VERY rare occassion one of the two is sick or has a family emergency.

I checked out their Chief Pilot a while back on a Mooney he wanted to use while I was Chief Flight Instructor in the same hangar; he was very tight-lipped about the whole thing and definitely gave off the impression that there would be an opening when one of them was placed six feet under.

Hangar 5 houses a construction company (did some charter work for them back in '96, just can't remember their name right off-hand). They had two Beechjets and a Bell Jetranger (no turboprop - that's why they needed us sometimes) and I still see their aircraft in there from time to time when I'm on the field.

B&C Aviation runs two Lears and a Falcon 20-5BR for Allan Jackson out of Hangar 7, Donnie Mudgett is the Chief Pilot, but it's difficult to break into as well, they have to see you around quite a bit and like the way you present yourself before you can really approach them about it.

Someone is in Hangar 8 (I don't know who - it changes pretty regularly) and Hangar 9 is a check-running operation running Barons.

If you want their contact numbers, just call Signature (they control everything from Hangar 7 to the North) or Mercury (they control everything from Hangar 6 to the South).

Tune might have a few more corporate aircraft - try calling Corporate Flight at John C Tune to find out - if they'll tell you (probably won't).

Nashville jobs are very scarce indeed, especially corporate ones - lots of big business, just most of them have their aviation ops headquartered elsewhere (Dell, Bellsouth, etc) and lots of competition - MTSU churns out a hundred new pilots every semester, flight instructors have several thousand hours and are competing for all the entry level jet and turboprop stuff and have nothing better to do than hang around and rub shoulders with the managers and operators there.

Good luck!

 

[gear_guy]

Thanks for the info Lear70. Sounds too competitive for me. I guess I'll just hang out here for a while.

 

[DX Rick]

O' Chucks!

You have to be kidding me! o'Chucks has a plane? I love that place, I would fly just for their triple cheese burgers and rolls. God, I'm hungry now

 

[AA717driver]

A couple of the Nissan guys were in my 550 class--really good people but I think you need to scan the obituaries to see when they're gonna hire.TC