One Pilot Recruited To Help Repossess Spirit Planes Asked, ‘Can I Fly In Shorts?’ The company responsible for repossessing Spirit Airlines planes was under a tremendous deadline to get the planes from airports where they had been left to Arizona and other locations. “I had six hours to find 20 pilots,” said Bob Allen, a co-founder of Nomadic Aviation Group in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. The aircraft leasing firms that owned the planes wanted them back, and quickly. Allen and company founder Steve Giordano had to quickly assemble a group of pilots to fly the planes and used a WhatsApp group to try and find them.
