Rolly Bergeson was the General Manager of Centennial Airlines when Mesa bought them in June 1987. He went to work for Larry Risley and he...

In June 1987, Larry Risley searched for a pressurized airplane to replace Mesa’s Beechcraft C-99s. He purchased two Beechcraft Super King...

Mesa made their first airline acquisition on June 1, 1987 when they bought Centennial Airlines of Wyoming. Rolly Bergeson, the General...

Larry Risley did something unconventional in November 1986. While most commuter airlines, in the deregulated airline environment, were...

Mesa bought their first Beechcraft BE-1900 in December 1985 for two million dollars. The town of Telluride and the adjacent ski area were...

In 1983, Larry and Janie Risley bought their first Beechcraft C-99 Airliner. A salesman at Beechcraft convinced Larry the airplane would...

Mesa started flying a single-engine, six seat, Piper Saratoga between Farmington, NM and Albuquerque in October 1980. It is humorous that...

You will be seeing some changes to my website soon. I am finishing up a manuscript for a book about Mesa Airlines. You will soon see an...

I begin my post this week talking about the first murder victim in my book (Rampage along Route 66) – Mary Louise Hill (aka Mary Lou). As...

My blog post this week will be one of the last ones covering my book, Rampage along Route 66. I will be transitioning the blog to use for...

In this week’s blog I talk about Kitty O’Rourke, the editor for my book. Early on in the process of putting Rampage along Route 66...

The blog post this week is a tip of my hat to my friend Blue Miller from the East Coast of England. Blue was kind enough to write the...

The blog post this week is about the sources of information from Grants that I used as I researched my book – Rampage along Route 66. I...

Patrick Lynch is the witness I wished I had located prior to publishing the first edition of my book. He had information that was truly...

I mentioned in my blog post last week that my next few posts would be to highlight some of the people who helped me as I researched the...

I was away from my blog for a few weeks while I did a book promotional tour in Arizona and New Mexico. It was an interesting experience...

March 20, 2022: The photograph this week is from a 1970 postcard showing Fort Courage and the Van de Kamp’s Restaurant in Houck, Arizona....

The gallery on my website has been updated and now contains 44 photographs and captions, many not published in the book. This photograph...

February 5, 2022: Today, I honor two slain Arizona highway patrolmen. Fifty-one years ago today, all hell broke loose on a stretch of...

The story-related picture this week is of an old Whiting Brothers service station located in West Gallup, New Mexico at 3120 W. Historic...