Daniel McBride

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107 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 13 Jul

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Living Your Legacy · How a Navy Veteran Built an Aviation Business From Scratch · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

So I just had to kind of do it old school, print out some resumes and just start handing them out face to face.

Well, I had so many different jobs.

I started working at Goodyear for a little bit, and then I worked at an F-16 place for a few years.

I sold guns at a gun dealer, and then I was a jailer for a year, a cop for three years.

And then I went into the oil field as a crane operator and built explosives.

And then that's when I realized that I really didn't, I couldn't really find happiness in anything that I was doing, but what I was happy doing was aviation.

So I found my way back to aviation and now

I mean I look forward to going into work every day.

I was working for an aviation company and I had some friends that they saw that I flipped a plane and they said, hey,

think we could all do this together you want to do it and i was like yeah sure so there was one other guy i didn't really know but um he was really interested in aviation so he came in to work one day and i was like hey i have two other friends that want to flip airplanes would you be interested he said let's do it and so right then um about three weeks later i ended up putting in my notice at work and i went off on my own and that's when stuff really got real

I mean, because after I quit, all of a sudden I was on my own, all by myself, realized there was no, we didn't have any planes to currently flip.

And so I remember doing one oil change on a customer's plane.

I was so nervous doing it because again, I was by myself.

no one's looking after me you know i didn't want to mess up i didn't want anything to go wrong and then shortly after that i found myself in an empty hangar with just some tools realizing you know what did i do what did i just get myself into and um shortly after that um

One of my buddies, my business partner, Michael, he ended up buying two planes.

And then all we did was we put them in a flight school and I was just working on those planes nonstop.

And then we ended up getting more and more planes.

I think we had up to like 13 airplanes.

I was working on them all by myself, just around the clock, seven days a week, sometimes 18, 20 hours a day, just to try to keep them in the air flying for the flight school.

And then what happened was we couldn't flip planes anymore.

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