It’s been awhile since I posted an aviation story. I love this stuff…….Congratulations to David Sprott!!

A 75-year-old Mobile man has received the Federal Aviation Administration’s Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award for his more than 50 years of flying without a safety blemish on his record, the FAA announced.

David N. Sprott, who flew for 20 years as a Marine Corps pilot and another 32 years as a commercial pilot before retiring in 2006, was presented the honor last month at a meeting of the P.L. Wilson Detachment of the Marine Corps League, of which he is a member.

A letter from an FAA official accompanying the award, noted, “The example you have set has inspired those who work in the aviation industry to set admirable goals for themselves and for our industry.”

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