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The Learjet repo man

Business has never been better for the fearless pilot who takes back millionaires' expensive toys.

By Marc Weingarten

 

Jun. 06, 2009 |

 

It was snowing hard when the bank called Nick Popovich. They needed to grab a Gulfstream in South Carolina now. Not tomorrow. Tonight.

 

All commercial and private planes were grounded, but Nick Popovich wasn't one to turn down a job. So he waited for the storm to clear long enough to charter a Hawker jet from Chicago into South Carolina. There was just one detail: No one had told Popovich about the heavily armed white supremacist militia that would be guarding the aircraft when he arrived.

 

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  • 3 weeks later...

If anything would create the street-smarts and toughness to do that, growing up in Northwest Indiana would do it. Tough territory.

Great story!

"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck

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