Van Nuys Airport

Hmm.

So we signed up for flying lessons at Van Nuys Flight Center, at Van Nuys Airport, and- For a variety of reasons which are beyond the scope of this narrative, uh, there were things that happened to me in the course of taking flying lessons that were so surpassingly wonderful that this depression, because that was eventually the name that I hung upon it, lifted.

Hmm.

Didn't feel depressed anymore.

And-

Yeah, 'cause this is at the Van Nuys Airport

... um, like the signs up here-

Right? That's what you wanna say-

Yeah

... it's Van Nuys Airport?

It's Van Nuys Airport.

Yeah, we're, we're open every Saturday and Sunday, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM.

we were fortunate to be able to conduct business and support our customers in 149 countries, 3,500 fueling locations.

We've been in the SAF business since 2018 when we did the first deliveries to Van Nuys Airport at that time.

We're fully ISCC certified through our supply chain, which is very, very important to our customers.

And we're also a strong participant within the aviation business aviation associations, such as the General Aviation Manufacturers Association, the National Business Aviation Association, IBAC, and the National Aviation Transport Association.

[laughs]

So they flew him from helicopter from Santa Monica to Van Nuys Airport and then drove to Woodland Hills.

So, uh, a 40-minute travel took, uh, I don't know, an hour and a half.

I was gonna say, yeah.

And, and this, this was crazy.

I've b- I've never done this before or since, but I chartered a little jet to fly me at 4:00 in the morning from Las Vegas to the Van Nuys Airport, which, thank God, is, like, 10 minutes from our Dunder Mifflin set [laughs].

Wow.

And I, I [laughs] flew this little fl- plane to, uh, I don't know if it was a turboprop or something.

Law enforcement knew in advance.

The Los Angeles Police or the Federal Bureau of Investigation knew exactly who the perpetrator was and went right to his van parked on a street about five miles away near the Van Nuys Airport.

Now, can you imagine, ladies and gentlemen, how many red vans there are parked on streets in Los Angeles and the vicinity? Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation say they did not know the identity of the shooter until they found his van.

But of the hundreds of thousands of vans, cars, and trucks parked on the streets of Los Angeles, police knew exactly where his van was parked and went straight to it.

But some of the early episodes, if they wanted to use an established World War II base, they used either Chino or Van Nuys.

But some of these pictures here were taken in Van Nuys Airport, and that's where they would take off to fly their sequences out over the water.

And the Japanese aircraft, like the one we're looking at here, these were similar to the ones from Tora Tora Tora, converted T-6s.

Yeah, actually, most of the airplanes, all but I think two of the airplanes that were used, the Japanese airplanes that were seen in the series were airplanes that were built specifically for tour, tour, tour.

I did background on.

At the Van Nuys Airport.

which is like literally right by my apartment, super convenient in the valley.

Van Nuts.

Yeah.

Because it goes under the Van Nuys Airport and it's like, they even use it for like overseas footage because it does look like a very Europe type style.

Like, you go through a tunnel with ceramic tile, that's not common out here.

So it