commercial pilot
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“These types of technologies are going to be an incredible enhancement,” Jim Webb, Boeing’s chief commercial pilot, said in September at a pilot union conference in Chicago.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
Gerald Cook, an adjunct professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, is a former commercial pilot and flight operations manager who flew for Spirit from 1999 to 2010.
From Slate • Oct. 15, 2024
It’s her first book that doesn’t take place aboard an airplane, though it begins when a commercial pilot suffers a fatal heart attack.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2024
She would go on to secure a licence as a pilot, a commercial pilot and an engineer all by the time she was 20 years old.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2024
After the war, he applied to be a commercial pilot, but was told he was barking up the wrong tree.
From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2024
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