Mike Ginter is an Active Duty Navy pilot currently “flying a desk” in the Pentagon. He has flown the venerable Lockheed S-3 VIKING since 1986, and has logged over 4000 hours of flight time in various Navy jets. Mike has also logged over 550 day and night carrier landings aboard Navy aircraft carriers. He has flown in every major military operation since 1989, and commanded a VIKING Squadron during the Global War on Terror.
His interest in aviation began at the age of 7, and he has pursued this passion for the last 40 years. He earned his Private Pilot license in high school, and graduated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach.
One of his lifelong ambitions was to own an airplane, and that dream was realized in 2005 when he purchased this beautiful 1943 North American SNJ-5 “Texan”. He is the 3rd civilian owner of this aircraft since it left military service, and has meticulously maintained its authentic Navy condition. He flies this vintage warbird at numerous military and civilian air shows every year. Mike holds a Commercial Pilot License and is a qualified Formation Lead Pilot with the North American Trainer Association and Commemorative Air Force.
Mike has a son, Nathan, who lives in Missouri and also enjoys aviation. They have enthusiastically participated in EAA Airventure in Oshkosh, Wisconsin for the last 4 years, and will be there for years to come.
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Nathan Harnagel is a retired Army officer with over 35 years of flying experience. He received his Bachelors Degree from Texas Christian University and his Master of Science Degree from the Naval Post Graduate School. He currently works in the aerospace industry as a Senior Project Engineer for a Federally Funded Research and Development Center.
Nathan has flown over eighty different types of aircraft including twenty different tail-wheel types and aerobatics in a dozen different types. He has earned the Airline Transport Pilot Certificate and his ratings include single and multiengine land airplanes, single and multiengine sea airplanes, helicopters, gliders, hot air balloons, and type ratings in the Citation Jet and North American P-51 Mustang.
He is also a Certified Flight Instructor rated to instruct in single and multiengine airplanes, instrument flying, helicopters and gliders. Nathan enjoys teaching the special skills necessary to pilot classic tailwheel aircraft off of paved or grass runways, how to perform military type aerobatic maneuvers, and he is a qualified Formation Lead Pilot and Formation Instructor Pilot with the North American Trainer Association and Commemorative Air Force. His experience with classic warbird aircraft ranges from the British DeHavilland Tiger Moth open cockpit biplane to the Lockheed T-33 jet. In between he has flown T-34 Mentor, PT-17 Stearman, AT-6/SNJ Texan, P-51 Mustang, and the Czechoslovakian L-39 Albatros jet.
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