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Owner’s
Scott Pasmore
Corner
Good Morning 421
1976 Cessna 421C
"You know what I think is so cool about aviation? I call it the great equalizer. You can be worth a billion dollars, but you will start in a Cessna 172, just like ev- erybody else. We all start at the same level. Just because someone is flying a Gulfstream G650 and you are flying around in a little single-engine plane, it doesn’t matter. Both are super cool,” said Scott Pasmore, a 1976 Cessna 421C
owner from Phoenix, Arizona.
Even though he did not become a pilot until adulthood, Pasmore has long been acquainted with gen-
eral aviation.
“My job has offered a lot of incred- ible opportunities throughout my career to fly. I’m a TV news anchor and do a morning show here called 'Good Morning Arizona.' I’ve flown in an F-16, been up with the Blue Angels, as well as all sorts of private planes and jets. Those experiences were as cool as can be, and as a result, I thought, ‘You know, I need to learn to fly myself.’”
“I made a phone call to the local airport and got in touch with the chief pilot for the Phoenix Police Depart- ment for both their fixed-wing and helicopter units. He taught me how to fly 12 years ago,” Pasmore said. “My
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