The man collecting Spirit’s pieces
5/15/20261 hr 16 min
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we’re joined by Nomadic Aviation Group co-founder Steve Giordano to talk about what happens when you suddenly need to move dozens of aircraft in a very short amount of time. Steve and his crew have spent the past two weeks bringing former Spirit Airlines aircraft to the desert for storage following the collapse of the airline on May 2nd. What does it take to make sure those aircraft can be legally, safely, and efficiently moved from wherever they ended up when the airline shut down?
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First 90 secondsIan Petchenik· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to episode 370 of AvTalk. I am Ian Petchenik, here as always with Jason Rabinowitz.
Jason Rabinowitz· Host0:17
How are you, Ian?
Ian Petchenik· Host0:18
I'm doing well, Jason. How are you, sir?
Jason Rabinowitz· Host0:21
I'm good. Too bad we're 10 episodes too far into the series, because this, at the end, it would've been good to tie this into as episode 360. But we gotta wait all the way to the end of the podcast to get to that one.
Ian Petchenik· Host0:32
[laughs] We'll, we'll get there. We'll get there eventually. We have a very good show this week, as longtime friend of the show, Steve Giordano, is joining us from Nomadic Aviation Group. He'll be here to talk about- How did we get ahold of him? Very, very carefully. He's [laughs] gonna join us to talk about what happens when an airline goes out of business, and you need to move all of their aircraft into storage.
Jason Rabinowitz· Host0:59
And it's in your own backyard.
Ian Petchenik· Host1:01
Yeah, at least one of them. Steve and his crew at Nomadic have moved nearly two dozen aircraft over the past week and a half, and there are more to come. So he's gonna explain how that all works, and some of the work that they've had to do, and some of the challenges that they've had to deal with as they do that work, a little later in the show. But first, we turn our attention to Denver, where over the weekend,