I just wanted to let all my friends at Cutter Aviation know that I am retiring from professional flying. Appropriately, I finished my last flight, arriving at Cutter in an Eclipse the night of February 2, 2019.

I have been a licensed pilot for 64 years and have flown in the military and as a professional pilot for 59 years, and now it’s time that I spend a little more time with my wife of 59 years. It’s been a “great ride,” because I love flying, and because of all the great people I have known and worked with in aviation.

In particular, I want you and all the employees at Cutter to know how much I appreciate your professionalism and friendship. Please pass on my personal thanks for their making my time in aviation in Albuquerque most enjoyable. As the saying goes, they have made “the worst day of flying better than the best day of real work.”

While I’m retiring from professional flying, I will not be gone. You will still see me around the airport in my Mooney!

I don't usually take the time to write reviews for FBO's but Cutter at DVT has been great. My company issues fleet credit cards without employee names on them and when a hotel would not take it once, Mollie at Cutter went well above and beyond, taking time to call several hotels in the area trying to get me situated for the night. My next time in, I called ahead to Mollie and told her I was going to be parked on the city ramp. They were very helpful in fueling me on a ramp that was not theirs as well as getting a rental car lined up for me on short notice. She even took a photo for me and my proud parents out by the airplane after giving us a ride out to the plane (which was not parked on their ramp). Most FBO's are good; Cutter (Go Mollie!) is exceptional.

I needed some night landings to stay current and so I decided to take my wife to KCOS for a $100 burger last week. We had been to Cutter in KABQ and the service was top notch, so we decided to give them a try in KCOS. We left Denver with full tanks and only took 5 gals of avgas once we got there, but you wouldn't have been able to tell by their level of service. They still let us use the beautiful crew car for free, sent us on with water and brownies and even mailed a thank you note to my home. Absolutely love the service and will always choose Cutter first wherever I go!

Landed at COS just before a big rainstorm on my way to Oshkosh. The crew at Cutter treated me like royalty, rolling my RV-6 into the hangar to protect it from the rain. When my buddy arrived a couple of hours later in his RV-8 he got treated great too. Paul, and all the Cutter crew, really knows the meaning of customer service. We did not spend a lot of money with Cutter that day, but we sure got treated like we were paying the light bill! Thank you for the help. See you next year.